Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami