Motivational Quotes

Happiness

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

- Ketchel, Holly

Best Quotes about Happiness

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

Szasz, Thomas

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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.

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

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

10.

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

11.

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Prutz

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

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Lao-tzu

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

David Assael

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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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 lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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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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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.