Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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- Bradley, Amanda

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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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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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

29.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

30.

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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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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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

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

Oscar Levant

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Stein, Ben

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.