Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

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

Storm Jameson

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

11.

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 not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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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 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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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

20.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

25.

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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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

28.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

Robert Frost

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

David Assael

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

37.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

38.

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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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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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

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

43.

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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

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

Christopher Morley

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John