Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Happiness

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Benjamin Franklin

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Al Batt

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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 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 really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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 unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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 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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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.

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Prevert, Jacques

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.