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

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Benjamin Franklin

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Oscar Levant

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Stein, Ben

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

14.

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Josh Billings

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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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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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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

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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 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

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston