Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Nicole Kidman

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

23.

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

Kin Hubbard

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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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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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

31.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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 attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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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

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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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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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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

43.

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Proust, Marcel