Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Nicole Kidman

Best Quotes about Happiness

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Christopher Morley

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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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.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Diderot, Denis

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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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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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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

George Burns

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

Nielsen, A.

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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 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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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Feather, William

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

John Berry

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.