Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

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Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

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

Maxwell, William

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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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 seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

25.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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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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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Christopher Morley

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

Oscar Levant

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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 not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl