Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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.

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Camus, Albert

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

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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.

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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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

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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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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

Stein, Ben

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

Herold, Don

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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 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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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

Oscar Levant

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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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 depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

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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

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Mason, John L.