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

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fichte, Johann G.

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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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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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Maxwell, William

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

Rooney, Andy

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

Horton, Doug

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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