Motivational Quotes

Happiness

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Alcott, Louisa May

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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

Goodman, Roy

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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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 thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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

Roy M. Goodman

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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Nash, Ogden

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

David Assael

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

Horton, Doug

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De