Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Where one is wise two are happy.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Clyde, R.D.

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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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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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Chuck Sigars

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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 not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Mason, John L.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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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