Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Lao-Tzu

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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 the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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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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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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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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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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 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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Jeans, Sir James

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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Prutz

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

Orwell, George