Motivational Quotes

Happiness

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Happiness

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

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

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Nash, Ogden

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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.

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

Ayn Rand

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

Lao-tzu

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

Prevert, Jacques

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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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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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nielsen, A.

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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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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 smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

George Burns

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Carnegie, Dale

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Ketchel, Holly

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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 does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William