Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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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 is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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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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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

William Cowper

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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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''

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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

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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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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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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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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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin