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

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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

Byron, Lord

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wilde, Oscar

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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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

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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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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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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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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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Mason, John L.

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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