Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

William Cowper

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Heywood, John

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.

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Nicole Kidman

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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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

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

Greene, Graham

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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.