Motivational Quotes

Happiness

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

- Tozer, A. W.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Sokoloff, Boris

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

George Burns

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Hoffer, Eric

Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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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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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

Storm Jameson

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Bierce, Ambrose