Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Goodman, Roy

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Billings, Josh

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ketchel, Holly

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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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 adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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''

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Maxwell, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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

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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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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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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Wilde, Oscar

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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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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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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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

Saroyan, William