Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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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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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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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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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May