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

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dalai Lama

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

John Berry

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

Jackson, Holbrook

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

Rohn, Jim

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Epicurus

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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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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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb