Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

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Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

William Cowper

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

Stein, Ben

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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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

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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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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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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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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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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

Lucian

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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 comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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 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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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.