Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Lao-tzu

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Horton, Doug

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Bergson, Henri L.

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Herold, Don

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Bob Newhart

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

Byron, Lord

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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 is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

28.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Dalai Lama

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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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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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry