Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Rohn, Jim

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

Dalai Lama

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

Chuck Sigars

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Robert Frost

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Bob Newhart

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

George Burns

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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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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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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

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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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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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

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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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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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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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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