Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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

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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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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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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 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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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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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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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

James Oppenheim

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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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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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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.