Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

- Lucas, E. V.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

Jeans, Sir James

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Josh Billings

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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

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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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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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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

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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 lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

Prazlin, Duchess