Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

- Garrison, Theodosia

Best Quotes about Happiness

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Greene, Graham

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Storm Jameson

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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 an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Democritus

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rooney, Andy

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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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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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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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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 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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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 in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Josh Billings

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel