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

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

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

Billings, Josh

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

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

Meredith, Owen

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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 happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Chambers, Oswald

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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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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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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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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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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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Goodman, Roy

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan