Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Prazlin, Duchess

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Zee, James Van Der

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Stossel, John

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Abraham Lincoln

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proust, Marcel

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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

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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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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

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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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

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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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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De