Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

Camus, Albert

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

Alda, Alan

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

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bob Newhart

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Feather, William

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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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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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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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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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Rooney, Andy

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