Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chambers, Oswald

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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

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

Herold, Don

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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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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

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Camus, Albert

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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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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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 is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Fielding, Henry

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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

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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 a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Fountain., John

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.