Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Chuck Sigars

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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.

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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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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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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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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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

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Nielsen, A.

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

Lao-tzu

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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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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.

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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

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

49.

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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George