Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Happiness

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Greene, Graham

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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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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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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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Stossel, John

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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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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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Nicole Kidman

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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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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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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

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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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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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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 that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Prutz

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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.