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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Smith, Adam

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Prutz

12.

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

13.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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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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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Jonathan Haidt

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

25.

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

Greene, Graham

26.

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

Rooney, Andy

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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

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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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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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

Dalai Lama

34.

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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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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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

39.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

40.

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

Goodman, Roy

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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.

44.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau