Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

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

Zee, James Van Der

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Buchan, John

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

John Berry

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Lao-Tzu

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Byron, Lord

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Herold, Don

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Diderot, Denis

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Smith, Adam

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.