Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

David Assael

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

10.

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

Storm Jameson

11.

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 is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Stein, Ben

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Nielsen, A.

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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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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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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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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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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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.

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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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

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.