Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

J.K. Rowling

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

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

George Burns

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

Maxwell, William

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Democritus

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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 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

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Al Batt

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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