Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

- Kundera, Milan

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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 good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Nash, Ogden

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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.

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

Mason, John L.

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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 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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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Byron, Lord

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Chuck Sigars

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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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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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