Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Prutz

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Orwell, George

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

Christopher Morley

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

Proust, Marcel

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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 is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Bradley, Amanda

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.