Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Mill, John Stuart

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Cloete, Stuart

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Bono, Edward De

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

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

George Burns

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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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

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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