Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

- Nielsen, A.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

Thomas Szasz

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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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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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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 pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Cloete, Stuart

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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

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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