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 happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

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

Buchan, John

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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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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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Lao-tzu

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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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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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.