Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Jean Houston

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Rooney, Andy

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Boone, Daniel

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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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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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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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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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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 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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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Meredith, Owen

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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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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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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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 cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson