Motivational Quotes

Happiness

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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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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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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

Rooney, Andy

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

Benjamin Franklin

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Jean Houston

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Bob Newhart

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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 greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

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

Solon

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.