Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Happiness

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Mahatma Gandhi

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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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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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Al Batt

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

Lao-tzu

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

Democritus

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

Prevert, Jacques

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

David Assael

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.