Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Ketchel, Holly

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Garrison, Theodosia

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Herold, Don

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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 lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

David Assael

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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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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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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

James Oppenheim

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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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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.

Harrigan, John

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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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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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Proverb, Scottish

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

Orwell, George

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.