Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Upanishads, Veda

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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 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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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

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Herold, Don

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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

John Berry

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman