Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Best Quotes about Happiness

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

John Berry

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

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

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

Confucius

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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Christopher Morley

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Mason, John L.

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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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

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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

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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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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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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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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Thomas Szasz

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Lao-Tzu

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.