Motivational Quotes

Happiness

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

- Kant, Immanuel

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Jonathan Haidt

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.

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

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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

David Assael

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

Lucian

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Nicole Kidman

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

18.

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

Proverb, Scottish

19.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Oscar Levant

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

Prutz

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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.

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

John Berry

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

Millman, Dan

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

Goodman, Roy

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.