Motivational Quotes

Happiness

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

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)

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

Lucian

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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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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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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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

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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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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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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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

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

Fountain., John

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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