Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

William Cowper

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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 adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Stossel, John

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Robert Frost

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Dalai Lama

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

Kin Hubbard

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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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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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

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel