Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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

Nicole Kidman

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Byron, Lord

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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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

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

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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

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

Anderson, Greg

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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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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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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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.

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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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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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Orwell, George

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

Lao-tzu

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

John Berry

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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