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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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

3.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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

5.

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

Chambers, Oswald

6.

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

7.

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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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

9.

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

10.

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

11.

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

13.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

14.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

15.

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

16.

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

17.

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

18.

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

19.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

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

Anderson, Greg

21.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

22.

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

23.

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

24.

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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

26.

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

28.

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

29.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

30.

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

Prazlin, Duchess

31.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

32.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

33.

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

Jeans, Sir James

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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

Josh Billings

36.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

39.

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

43.

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

44.

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

Hoffer, Eric

45.

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

46.

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

Smith, Adam

47.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

49.

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Lubbock, Sir John