Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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

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

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

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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

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.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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 a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Oprah Winfrey

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chuck Sigars

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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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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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Yeats, William Butler

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Cloete, Stuart

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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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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Mason, John L.

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

Rooney, Andy

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen