Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

- Sade, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

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

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Christopher Morley

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Maxwell, William

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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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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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

Democritus

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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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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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Stein, Ben

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Bob Newhart

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green