Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

David Assael

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

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

Maxwell, William

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

Jeans, Sir James

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

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Camus, Albert

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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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

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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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 smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

Prutz

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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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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Nash, Ogden

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

George Burns

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

John Berry

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