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

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Prutz

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

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

Al Batt

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

Muller, Max

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Bradley, Amanda

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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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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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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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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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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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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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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 requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

Ayn Rand

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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 is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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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 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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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon