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

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

Maxwell, William

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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

John Berry

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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 a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Feather, William

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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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

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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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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Confucius

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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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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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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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

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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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