Motivational Quotes

Happiness

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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

Ketchel, Holly

10.

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 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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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

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

Jonathan Haidt

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

23.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

25.

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

Bono, Edward De

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Fountain., John

28.

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

William Cowper

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

33.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Robert Frost

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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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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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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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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

41.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Lao-tzu

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.