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

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Buchan, John

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

Beckett, Samuel

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.

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Diderot, Denis

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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 the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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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 comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Democritus

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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 is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Solon