Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

- Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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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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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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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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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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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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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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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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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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