Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Nicole Kidman

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Diderot, Denis

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Jonathan Haidt

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

10.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

11.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

12.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

13.

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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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

16.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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

Muller, Max

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

Lao-Tzu

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Lao-tzu

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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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

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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Maxwell, William

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.