Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Maxwell, William

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Nicole Kidman

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

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

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

George Burns

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

Jeans, Sir James

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stossel, John

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

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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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 something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

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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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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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

Diderot, Denis

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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