Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

- Sokoloff, Boris

Best Quotes about Happiness

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Mason, John L.

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

Oprah Winfrey

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

10.

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

11.

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Horton, Doug

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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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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Herold, Don

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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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 observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Robert Frost

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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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

29.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

David Assael

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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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

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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 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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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 act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

Heywood, John

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

Alcott, Louisa May