Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Happiness

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Confucius

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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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

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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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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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 most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Solon

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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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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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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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 a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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 a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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