Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Fichte, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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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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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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

Maxwell, William

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Buchan, John

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Dalai Lama

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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

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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 human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Goodman, Roy

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam