Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

- Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Goodman, Roy

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

11.

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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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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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Oscar Levant

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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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

25.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

28.

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

29.

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

30.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

32.

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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

35.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Stossel, John

40.

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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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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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.

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin