Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Happiness

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Lucian

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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 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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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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

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Stossel, John

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Oscar Levant

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Dalai Lama

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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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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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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 not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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 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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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Clyde, R.D.