Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

- Barthel, Mildred

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

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

Al Batt

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

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

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Fielding, Henry

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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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

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

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Stossel, John

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

James Oppenheim

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

Lao-tzu

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

Dalai Lama

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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