Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Happiness

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Fichte, Johann G.

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

The laws of Manu

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Hesse, Hermann

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

John Berry

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Stein, Ben

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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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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

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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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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Meredith, Owen

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.