Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

John Berry

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Billings, Josh

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Yeats, William Butler

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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.

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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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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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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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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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

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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 be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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.