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

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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)

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

10.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

11.

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

Nielsen, A.

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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Zee, James Van Der

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

Lao-Tzu

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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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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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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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 held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Lucian