Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Walpole, Sir Hugh

Best Quotes about Happiness

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

John Berry

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

Boone, Daniel

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

Solon

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''

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.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Kin Hubbard

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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Dalai Lama

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

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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

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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.