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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Nicole Kidman

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Maxwell, William

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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 secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Hesse, Hermann

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

33.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

34.

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

Horton, Doug

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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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