Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Huxley, Aldous

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Horace

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

10.

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

11.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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

Garrison, Theodosia

16.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

21.

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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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 requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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

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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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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 not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

Chuck Sigars

35.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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

43.

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

Lao-tzu

45.

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.