Motivational Quotes

Happiness

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

- Buchan, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

James Oppenheim

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Goodman, Roy

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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 activity.

Aristotle

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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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 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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Billings, Josh

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.