Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Kant, Immanuel

Best Quotes about Happiness

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

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

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Mill, John Stuart

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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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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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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

Rooney, Andy

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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

Dalai Lama

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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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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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

John Berry

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Democritus

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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Jean Houston

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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