Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Keyes Jr., Ken

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

David Assael

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Millman, Dan

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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 search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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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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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

Dalai Lama

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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