Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Lucian

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

Freud, Sigmund

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Lubbock, Sir John

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Jeans, Sir James

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

Mason, John L.

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

Prutz

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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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

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

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Thomas Szasz

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Maxwell, William

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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