Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- The laws of Manu

Best Quotes about Happiness

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bono, Edward De

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

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

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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

Prutz

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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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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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Oprah Winfrey

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

Mason, John L.

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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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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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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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 activity.