Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

- Sweetland, Ben

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Horton, Doug

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Dyer, Wayne

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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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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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Lao-tzu

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

C. P. Snow

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

42.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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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

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

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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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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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook