Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Smith, Adam

Best Quotes about Happiness

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Dalai Lama

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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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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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

Roy M. Goodman

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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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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Rooney, Andy

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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

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

The laws of Manu

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bono, Edward De

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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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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William