Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Jean Houston

Best Quotes about Happiness

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Smith, Adam

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.

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

Boone, Daniel

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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Oscar Levant

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Horton, Doug

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Lao-tzu

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

28.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Christopher Morley

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

George Burns

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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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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo