Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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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Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

10.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

17.

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 state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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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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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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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 makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Greene, Graham

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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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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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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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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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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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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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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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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug