Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Prevert, Jacques

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Jean Houston

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

Cloete, Stuart

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''

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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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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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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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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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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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Nielsen, A.

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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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 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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Rooney, Andy

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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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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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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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 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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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