Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

- Lubbock, Sir John

Best Quotes about Happiness

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

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

Boone, Daniel

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Goodman, Roy

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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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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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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.

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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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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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

David Assael

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Feather, William

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

William Cowper

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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bradley, Amanda