Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Jean Houston

Best Quotes about Happiness

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mahatma Gandhi

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Buchan, John

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles 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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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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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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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 optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

Mason, John L.

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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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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Rooney, Andy

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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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