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

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

The laws of Manu

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Carnegie, Dale

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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 secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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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 the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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 is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

Proust, Marcel

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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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.