Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

- Stossel, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Jefferson, Thomas

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Horton, Doug

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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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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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Rohn, Jim

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Herold, Don

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Saroyan, William

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

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rooney, Andy

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand