Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

- Rubinstein, Arthur

Best Quotes about Happiness

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Chuck Sigars

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Stossel, John

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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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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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Oscar Levant

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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

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

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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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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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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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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.