Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Bergson, Henri L.

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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 never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Oscar Levant

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

Horton, Doug

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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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 comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

Prutz

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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

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

Rooney, Andy

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Jean Houston

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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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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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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 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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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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