Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- John Berry

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

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

Cloete, Stuart

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Dalai Lama

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Farrall, Joseph

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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 is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Lucian

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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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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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

Solon

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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

Stein, Ben

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston