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

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Horton, Doug

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

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Millman, Dan

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Horace

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Maxwell, William

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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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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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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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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 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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.