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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Aristotle

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Oliphant, Margaret

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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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

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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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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Bob Newhart

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

Roy M. Goodman

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Mason, John L.

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

Fielding, Henry

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

Stossel, John