Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Keyes Jr., Ken

Best Quotes about Happiness

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Feather, William

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Prutz

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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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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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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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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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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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

27.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

Proverb, Scottish

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dalai Lama

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

Horton, Doug

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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

Camus, Albert

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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