Motivational Quotes

Happiness

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Happiness

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Christopher Morley

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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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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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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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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 comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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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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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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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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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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

Bob Newhart

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett