Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

Mahatma Gandhi

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Garrison, Theodosia

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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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 comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

20.

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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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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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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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

33.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

James Oppenheim

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder