Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Chuck Sigars

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Kin Hubbard

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Oprah Winfrey

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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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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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Ann Radcliffe

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Clyde, R.D.

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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.

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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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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

David Assael

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Oscar Levant

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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

George Burns