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

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Byron, Lord

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Alcott, Louisa May

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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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

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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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 was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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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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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

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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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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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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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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, 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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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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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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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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John