Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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.

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

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Sokoloff, Boris

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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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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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

25.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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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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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

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

Robert Frost

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Confucius

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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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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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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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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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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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl