Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

- Thomas, John M.

Best Quotes about Happiness

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Prutz

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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 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

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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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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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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 that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

John Berry

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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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

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.