Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Nicole Kidman

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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

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

Democritus

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.

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

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Greene, Graham

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ann Radcliffe

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

J.K. Rowling

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

Stein, Ben

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Jean Houston

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

Kin Hubbard

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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 consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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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

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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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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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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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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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Lao-Tzu