Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

- Dalai Lama

Best Quotes about Happiness

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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 not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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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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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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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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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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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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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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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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 the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Lao-tzu

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben