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

Maxwell, William

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Al Batt

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

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

George Burns

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Billings, Josh

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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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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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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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

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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.

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric