Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Muller, Max

Best Quotes about Happiness

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

James Oppenheim

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Greene, Graham

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

Hesse, Hermann

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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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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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Billings, Josh

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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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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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 the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.