Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

- Baruch Spinoza

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Dalai Lama

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Horton, Doug

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Ayn Rand

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Millman, Dan