Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Upanishads, Veda

Best Quotes about Happiness

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nicole Kidman

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

Horton, Doug

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

David Assael

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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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.

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Mason, John L.

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Rooney, Andy

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.