Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Bob Newhart

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

Jean Houston

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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.

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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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 bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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 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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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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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Rooney, Andy

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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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

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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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

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Greene, Graham

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

Herold, Don

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

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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