Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Fielding, Henry

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Byron, Lord

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Lao-tzu

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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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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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Oscar Levant

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis 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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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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

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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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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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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

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza