Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Jean Houston

Best Quotes about Happiness

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Addison, Joseph

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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 like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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

Prutz

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Christopher Morley

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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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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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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Fielding, Henry

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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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