Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

Alda, Alan

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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.

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Herold, Don

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

Camus, Albert

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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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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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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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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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Robert Frost

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim