Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

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Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Feather, William

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Horton, Doug

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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 isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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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.

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel