Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

- O'Malley, Austin

Best Quotes about Happiness

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Herold, Don

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.

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Maxwell, William

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Lao-Tzu

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Kin Hubbard

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson