Motivational Quotes

Happiness

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

- Laura Moncur

Best Quotes about Happiness

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Camus, Albert

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

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 longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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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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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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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

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

Chuck Sigars

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Herold, Don

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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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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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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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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu