Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

- Clyde, R.D.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

6.

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

7.

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

Nielsen, A.

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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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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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

28.

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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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

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

32.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

41.

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques