Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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

Sokoloff, Boris

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Horton, Doug

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

Jean Houston

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

11.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Horton, Doug

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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... 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 a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Roy M. Goodman

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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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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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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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

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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

Bradley, Amanda

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

David Assael

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Heatter, Gabriel