Motivational Quotes

Happiness

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Happiness

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Proust, Marcel

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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 something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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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.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Boone, Daniel

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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 in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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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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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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Jean Houston

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

William Cowper

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

Democritus

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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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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