Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Rooney, Andy

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Stein, Ben

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, 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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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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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 greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Nash, Ogden

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

John Berry

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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.

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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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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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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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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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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

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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

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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.