Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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)

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

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

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

Ayn Rand

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

George Burns

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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

Herold, Don

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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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 want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese