Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

Josh Billings

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

Roy M. Goodman

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Storm Jameson

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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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 highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Ann Radcliffe

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

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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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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Alda, Alan

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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

Goodman, Roy

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Szasz, Thomas