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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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.

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

Democritus

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ketchel, Holly

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Camus, Albert

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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 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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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Stein, Ben

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Herold, Don

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

Byron, Lord

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Oprah Winfrey

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.