Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

- Frank, Anne

Best Quotes about Happiness

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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 are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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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

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

30.

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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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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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Scottish

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

38.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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

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

Landor, Walter Savage