Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Josh Billings

Best Quotes about Happiness

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lao-tzu

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Millman, Dan

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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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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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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 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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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

Jean Houston

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

David Assael

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis