Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Byron, Lord

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Alda, Alan

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

Garrison, Theodosia

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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.

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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 is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Al Batt

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Storm Jameson