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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Lao-Tzu

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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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Millman, Dan

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

John Berry

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

Lucian

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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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 thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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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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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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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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

Rooney, Andy

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

Oscar Levant

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

Stein, Ben

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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