Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- The laws of Manu

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Prutz

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

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

Camus, Albert

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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

15.

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

Goodman, Roy

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

28.

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

30.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Byron, Lord

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

41.

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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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Stein, Ben

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

James Oppenheim

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel