Motivational Quotes

Happiness

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

- Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

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

The laws of Manu

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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

Al Batt

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

Fielding, Henry

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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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 only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

Herold, Don

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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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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

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.