Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Fichte, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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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

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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dalai Lama

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Epicurus

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas