Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Lane, Rose Wilder

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

David Assael

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

Jean Houston

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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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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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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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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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

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

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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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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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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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage