Motivational Quotes

Happiness

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Jonathan Haidt

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

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

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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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 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

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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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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Cloete, Stuart

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Storm Jameson

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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)

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

Byron, Lord

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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