Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Al Batt

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

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

Jonathan Haidt

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

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

David Assael

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

James Oppenheim

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

The laws of Manu

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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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

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Bob Newhart

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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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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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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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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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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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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Lao-Tzu

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.