Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Anderson, Greg

Best Quotes about Happiness

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

Bono, Edward De

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Bergson, Henri L.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

David Assael

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

Bob Newhart

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

18.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Oscar Levant

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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 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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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

30.

And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

Robert Frost

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

George Burns

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Nicole Kidman

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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

43.

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

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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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

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Horton, Doug

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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.