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

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Jean Houston

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

10.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

11.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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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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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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''

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

21.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

32.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

34.

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Boone, Daniel

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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.

47.

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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