Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Jeans, Sir James

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

Lao-tzu

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rooney, Andy

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Proverb, Spanish

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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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 hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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 arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Chambers, Oswald