Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Freud, Sigmund

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cloete, Stuart

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

David Assael

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

Horton, Doug

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Josh Billings

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

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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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

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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

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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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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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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

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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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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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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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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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