Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

- Josh Billings

Best Quotes about Happiness

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nicole Kidman

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Greene, Graham

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

Chuck Sigars

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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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 are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

Proust, Marcel

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Robert Frost

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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

35.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Oscar Levant

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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

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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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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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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

John Berry