Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

- Erikson, Erik H.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

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

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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 lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Levenson, Samuel

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

George Burns

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Erikson, Erik H.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

James Oppenheim

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

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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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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''

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

Ayn Rand

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

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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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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Muller, Max