Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Jean Houston

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.

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

Roy M. Goodman

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

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

Jeans, Sir James

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Horton, Doug

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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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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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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

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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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.

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

John Berry

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Solon

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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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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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