Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

Abraham Lincoln

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Bono, Edward De

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

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

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 secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Prevert, Jacques

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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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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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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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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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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Stein, Ben

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Christopher Morley

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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 is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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