Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

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

Greene, Graham

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

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

David Assael

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Nicole Kidman

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 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

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Goodman, Roy

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Peggy Orenstein

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Lao-Tzu

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Epicurus

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

John Berry

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.