Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

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

Fountain., John

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Cloete, Stuart

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Hoffer, Eric

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.

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

Epicurus

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

14.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Proverb, Spanish

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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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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 a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

43.

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

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jeans, Sir James

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!