Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Heywood, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

William Cowper

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

Lao-Tzu

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

Storm Jameson

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Josh Billings

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Stossel, John

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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.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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.

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

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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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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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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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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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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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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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt