Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Happiness

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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

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

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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.

Eddie Cantor

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

Herold, Don

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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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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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

Orwell, George

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

Rooney, Andy

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

George Burns

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.