Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Addison, Joseph

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Roy M. Goodman

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Prutz

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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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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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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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