Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Storm Jameson

Best Quotes about Happiness

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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

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

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

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

Greene, Graham

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

Alcott, Louisa May

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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 not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Wilde, Oscar

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald