Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

- J.K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Greene, Graham

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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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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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

Ayn Rand

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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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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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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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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 is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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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