Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lao-tzu

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Yeats, William Butler

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

10.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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''

18.

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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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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

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

28.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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

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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

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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

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

Horace

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

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