Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Dalai Lama

Best Quotes about Happiness

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

Marden, Orison Swett

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Dyer, Wayne

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

Maxwell, William

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Nicole Kidman

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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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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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 attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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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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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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