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

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

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

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

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Nielsen, A.

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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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 makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Herold, Don

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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: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Dalai Lama

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

David Assael

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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

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam