Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Saroyan, William

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Yeats, William Butler

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Muller, Max

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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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 possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Dalai Lama

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

Cloete, Stuart

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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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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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proust, Marcel

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

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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 radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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.