Motivational Quotes

Happiness

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

- Doris Lessing

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Mason, John L.

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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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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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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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 great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

George Burns

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Goodman, Roy

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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.

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

Lane, Rose Wilder