Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Epicurus

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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

William Cowper

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

Fountain., John

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

Christopher Morley

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Fielding, Henry

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Robert Frost

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Mason, John L.

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Levenson, Samuel

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu