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

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Lao-tzu

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

Russell, Bertrand

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Jean Houston

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

Jefferson, Thomas

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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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 to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Christopher Morley

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Dyer, Wayne

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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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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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Josh Billings

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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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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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James