Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Alcott, Louisa May

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Josh Billings

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

Roy M. Goodman

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Muller, Max

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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 unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Oscar Levant

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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

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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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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder