Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Nielsen, A.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Christopher Morley

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

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

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.

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.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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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

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

Al Batt

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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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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Lao-tzu

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle