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

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Alda, Alan

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Kant, Immanuel

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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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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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Maxwell, William

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

William Cowper

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

George Burns

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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

Dalai Lama

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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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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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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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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 a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Bono, Edward De