Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

- Stossel, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Buchan, John

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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 discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Josh Billings

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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Ketchel, Holly

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

37.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

38.

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

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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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

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Horton, Doug

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