Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Prutz

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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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

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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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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

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Lao-tzu

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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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 pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.