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

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

10.

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

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

Camus, Albert

12.

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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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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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 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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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Nash, Ogden

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Prevert, Jacques

39.

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

40.

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Muller, Max

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Yeats, William Butler

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green