Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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)

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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

Bono, Edward De

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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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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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Lao-tzu

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

David Assael

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

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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.

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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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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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard