Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness requires problems

- Hollingworth, H. L.

Best Quotes about Happiness

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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 seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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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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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

19.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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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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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Bob Newhart

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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Lao-tzu

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

44.

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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