Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Spanish

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Mason, John L.

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Millman, Dan

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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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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 in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Oscar Levant

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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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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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Byron, Lord

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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 not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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.

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