Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Happiness

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mason, John L.

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Prutz

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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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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

13.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

Lao-Tzu

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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

Bono, Edward De

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

Heywood, John

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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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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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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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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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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Goodman, Roy

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

William Cowper

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Alda, Alan

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

Bob Newhart

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De