Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Aristotle

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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.

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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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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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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Jean Houston

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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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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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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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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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Prutz

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor