Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

- Koenig, Frederick

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

David Assael

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Oscar Levant

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

George Burns

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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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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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Horton, Doug

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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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

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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 thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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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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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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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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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.