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

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Clyde, R.D.

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Spanish

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

Dalai Lama

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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Nielsen, A.

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Josh Billings

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

George Burns

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

The laws of Manu

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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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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

Mason, John L.

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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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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William