Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Prazlin, Duchess

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Stein, Ben

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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 having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

23.

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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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

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

James Oppenheim

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

29.

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

Lao-tzu

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper