Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

- Thomas, John M.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Lucian

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

Jean Houston

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.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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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 really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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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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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

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

Buchan, John

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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.

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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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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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

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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

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

Prutz

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

Rohn, Jim

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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