Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

- Bennett, William John

Best Quotes about Happiness

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bradley, Amanda

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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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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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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

Dalai Lama

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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 happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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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 loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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