Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Boone, Daniel

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

Yeats, William Butler

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

Ketchel, Holly

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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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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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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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Chambers, Oswald

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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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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

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Billings, Josh

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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