Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

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Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Christopher Morley

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

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Anderson, Greg

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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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)

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Mason, John L.

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett