Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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.

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Stein, Ben

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Mahatma Gandhi

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Maxwell, William

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

Prutz

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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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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Chuck Sigars

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Democritus

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

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Bob Newhart

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas