Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Rohn, Jim

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

11.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Ann Radcliffe

15.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

17.

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

18.

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

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

21.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

22.

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

Nash, Ogden

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

24.

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

Fountain., John

26.

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

28.

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

Nicole Kidman

29.

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

30.

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

31.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

33.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

38.

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

39.

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

John Berry

40.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

41.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

42.

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

44.

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

45.

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak