Motivational Quotes

Happiness

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Happiness

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Millman, Dan

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

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

Josh Billings

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Al Batt

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 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

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

Feather, William

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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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 seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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 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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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