Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

- Keyes Jr., Ken

Best Quotes about Happiness

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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.

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

Feather, William

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Oscar Levant

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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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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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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Dalai Lama

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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