Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

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Best Quotes about Happiness

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

Prutz

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

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

Clyde, R.D.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Bob Newhart

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stossel, John

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

Orwell, George

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

Bono, Edward De

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

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Roy M. Goodman

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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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 a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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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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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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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Nicole Kidman

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Yeats, William Butler