Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Lane, Rose Wilder

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Maxwell, William

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

Beckett, Samuel

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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?

Caron, Leslie

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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 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

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

Feather, William

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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 longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Horace

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

Waitley, Denis

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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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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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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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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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Herold, Don

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John