Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Jackson, Holbrook

10.

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

11.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

13.

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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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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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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

Christopher Morley

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Maxwell, William

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

24.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

28.

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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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

31.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Jonathan Haidt

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

44.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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