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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rooney, Andy

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

George Burns

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

Ketchel, Holly

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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

John Berry

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

Greene, Graham

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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 two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

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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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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Epicurus

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies