Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Greene, Graham

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

Jean Houston

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

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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 is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mason, John L.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Maxwell, William

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb