Motivational Quotes

Happiness

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

- Kin Hubbard

Best Quotes about Happiness

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

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

Sokoloff, Boris

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Nicole Kidman

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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Rooney, Andy

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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Chuck Sigars

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

Ayn Rand

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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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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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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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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: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?