Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- George Burns

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Bradley, Amanda

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

George Burns

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

Dalai Lama

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

Nielsen, A.

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Muller, Max

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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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Chuck Sigars

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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.

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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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

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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 the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus