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

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Fichte, Johann G.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Thomas Szasz

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

Prutz

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Byron, Lord

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

William Cowper

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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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 most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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

Yeats, William Butler