Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Robert Frost

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Robert Frost

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Ketchel, Holly

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Stein, Ben

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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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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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Boone, Daniel

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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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 a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel