Motivational Quotes

Happiness

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Bierce, Ambrose

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

John Berry

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Russell, Bertrand

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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 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

30.

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Horton, Doug

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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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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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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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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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Thomas Szasz

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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel