Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

- Ayn Rand

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Epictetus

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

Yeats, William Butler

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Al Batt

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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

Saroyan, William

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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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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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.