Motivational Quotes

Happiness

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

The laws of Manu

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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 lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Rooney, Andy

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

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Ayn Rand

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.