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Happiness

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
- James, William
Happiness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Happiness

1.
Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.
Cloete, Stuart

2.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The laws of Manu

3.
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

4.
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
Alda, Alan

5.
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel

6.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Franklin, Benjamin

7.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness
Orwell, George

8.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Ingersoll, Robert Green

9.
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.
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
Baker, Russell (Wayne)

11.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

12.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Santayana, George

13.
Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.
Prazlin, Duchess

14.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
Camus, Albert

15.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Jefferson, Thomas

16.
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
Bennett, William John

17.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
Epictetus

18.
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Oliphant, Margaret

19.
The secret of happiness is something to do.
Burroughs, John

20.
The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.
Clyde, R.D.

21.
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao-tzu

22.
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

23.
The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

24.
Happiness is activity.
Aristotle

25.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Mill, John Stuart

26.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Goodman, Roy

27.
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin

28.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Ziglar, Zig

29.
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

30.
Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.
Proverb, Russian

31.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
Anderson, Greg

32.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Addison, Joseph

33.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman

34.
Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.
Ingersoll, Robert Green

35.
Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.
Thomas, John M.

36.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Stendhal, Henri B.

37.
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!
Bob Newhart

38.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

39.
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

40.
Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.
Erikson, Erik H.

41.
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.
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

43.
Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
Johnson, Samuel

44.
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

45.
People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.
Zimbler, Adam

46.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.
Murdoch, Iris

47.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Proust, Marcel

48.
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry

49.
The happier the moment the shorter.
Pliny The Elder

50.
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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