Motivational Quotes

Happiness

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

- Gilfillan, Robert

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Landor, Walter Savage

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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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 bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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

Prutz

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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

Confucius

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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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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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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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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 being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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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