Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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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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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 bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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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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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Stossel, John

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

The laws of Manu

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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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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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur