Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Happiness

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Boone, Daniel

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Hesse, Hermann

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

Saroyan, William

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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

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

Horton, Doug

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

William Cowper

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

Jean Houston

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Prutz

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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