Motivational Quotes

Happiness

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Happiness

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

Greene, Graham

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

James Oppenheim

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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 depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Seneca

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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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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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.

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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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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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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 journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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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

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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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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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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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

David Assael