Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

- Maurier, Daphne Du

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

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

Saroyan, William

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

10.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Jeans, Sir James

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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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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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

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

31.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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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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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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 is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.