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 not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Jeans, Sir James

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

21.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Jean Houston

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

Horton, Doug

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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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.