Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

- Zee, James Van Der

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

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

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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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 not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Spencer, Herbert

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, 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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

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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 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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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Robert Frost

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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

John Berry

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Thomas Szasz

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand