Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

- Young, Margaret

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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

Josh Billings

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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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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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Oscar Levant

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Chuck Sigars

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stossel, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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 consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett