Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Where one is wise two are happy.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Happiness

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

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

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

Thomas Szasz

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Nielsen, A.

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Oscar Levant

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Horace

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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''

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

28.

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

Feather, William

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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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

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Scottish

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.