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 not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Epicurus

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Democritus

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

Lao-Tzu

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

David Assael

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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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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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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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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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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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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''