Motivational Quotes

Happiness

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

- Ketchel, Holly

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

John Berry

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Epictetus

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

Al Batt

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Camus, Albert

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

Fountain., John

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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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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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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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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Oscar Levant

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

Clyde, R.D.

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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 is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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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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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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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart