Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Greene, Graham

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

Brande, Dorothea

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Aristotle

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

10.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

11.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

12.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

14.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

21.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

22.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Chuck Sigars

25.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

26.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

27.

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

28.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

30.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

31.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

32.

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

33.

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

Al Batt

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Jean Houston

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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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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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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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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.