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

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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 comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Camus, Albert

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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

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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 really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Prutz

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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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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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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 a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Prevert, Jacques

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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