Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Mason, John L.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

11.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

12.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

13.

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

Robert Frost

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

15.

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

Christopher Morley

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Prazlin, Duchess

21.

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Levenson, Samuel

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

26.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

27.

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

Yeats, William Butler

28.

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

William Cowper

29.

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

30.

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

Goodman, Roy

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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

32.

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

33.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Alcott, Louisa May

37.

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

Mill, John Stuart

39.

And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

43.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman