Motivational Quotes

Happiness

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Happiness

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

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

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

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

George Burns

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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 not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Dyer, Wayne

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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 is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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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 secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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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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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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 is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Benjamin Franklin

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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

Meredith, Owen

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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