Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Ketchel, Holly

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

John Berry

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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 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 secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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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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

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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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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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De