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

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

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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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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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

Chuck Sigars

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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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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

James Oppenheim

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

Clyde, R.D.

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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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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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Mahatma Gandhi