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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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.

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Fielding, Henry

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Lucian

11.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

13.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

19.

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nash, Ogden

28.

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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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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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza