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

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

Prevert, Jacques

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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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 is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Nielsen, A.

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Anderson, Greg

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

George Burns

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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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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max