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

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Benjamin Franklin

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Mason, John L.

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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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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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Epicurus

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

Nash, Ogden

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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

David Assael

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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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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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.