Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Happiness

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Carnegie, Dale

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Goodman, Roy

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Bob Newhart

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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 is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Bradley, Amanda

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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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 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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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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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Horton, Doug

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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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