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

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

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

Lao-tzu

10.

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

11.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

12.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

13.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

17.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

21.

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

Horace

22.

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

Proverb, Scottish

23.

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

28.

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

Confucius

29.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

30.

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

Zee, James Van Der

31.

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

32.

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

33.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

34.

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

James Oppenheim

35.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

37.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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

William Cowper

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

40.

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

41.

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

42.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

45.

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

Prevert, Jacques

46.

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

47.

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

Dalai Lama

48.

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

49.

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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