Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Best Quotes about 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

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

Christopher Morley

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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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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

David Assael

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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

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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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

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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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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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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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Hesse, Hermann

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

Abraham Lincoln