Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

- Rubin, Theodore I.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Al Batt

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Oprah Winfrey

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

Feather, William

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Lao-tzu

11.

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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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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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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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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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 comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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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 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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

John Berry

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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For who is pleased with himself.