Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

- Kingsley, Charles

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Feather, William

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Camus, Albert

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Saroyan, William

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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 not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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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.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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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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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Bono, Edward De

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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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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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

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

Nicole Kidman

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De