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

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

Boone, Daniel

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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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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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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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

14.

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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

17.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

22.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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.

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Democritus

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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper