Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

- Harrigan, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Boone, Daniel

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

Hubbard, Elbert

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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

Bradley, Amanda

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

Horton, Doug

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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 consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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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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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Billings, Josh

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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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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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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