Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Prutz

Best Quotes about Happiness

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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

Landor, Walter Savage

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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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

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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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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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

John Berry

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Lucian

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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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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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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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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

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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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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

Marden, Orison Swett