Motivational Quotes

Happiness

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Happiness

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Confucius

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Camus, Albert

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

Rooney, Andy

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

Dalai Lama

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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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 two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Nicole Kidman

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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