Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Chuck Sigars

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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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

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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 not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Ketchel, Holly

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

Lao-tzu

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Rohn, Jim

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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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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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

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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 sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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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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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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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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 is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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