Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

Bob Newhart

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Epictetus

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

Camus, Albert

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

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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 not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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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

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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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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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 seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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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

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.