Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Maurier, Daphne Du

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Bergson, Henri L.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Goodman, Roy

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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.

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

George Burns

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

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Robert Frost

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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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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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 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

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Bradley, Amanda

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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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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 held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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