Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Clyde, R.D.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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

Jean Houston

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

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

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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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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 sort of action.

Aristotle

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

George Burns

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Dyer, Wayne

25.

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

30.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

31.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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

James Oppenheim

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David