Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Oscar Levant

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

Huxley, Aldous

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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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

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Jonathan Haidt

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Lao-tzu

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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 is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Zee, James Van Der

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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 experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman