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

Rooney, Andy

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

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

Democritus

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

Benjamin Franklin

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Horton, Doug

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bradley, Amanda

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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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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Billings, Josh

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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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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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Meredith, Owen

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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Heywood, John

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

Feather, William

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Proverb, Spanish

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.