Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

- Fountain., John

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Nielsen, A.

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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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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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 continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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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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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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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi