Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Happiness

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

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

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

George Burns

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Russell, Bertrand

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Saroyan, William

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Solon

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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.

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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.