Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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

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

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

Camus, Albert

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

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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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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

24.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

Herold, Don

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

Rohn, Jim

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

James Oppenheim

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Horton, Doug

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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