Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Chuck Sigars

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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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

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Democritus

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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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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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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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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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

Prutz

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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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.

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim