Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

Clyde, R.D.

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Nielsen, A.

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Boone, Daniel

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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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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

29.

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Lao-Tzu

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

George Burns

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

49.

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

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness