Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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

Millman, Dan

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

Solon

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

Jackson, Holbrook

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

John Berry

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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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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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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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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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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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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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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

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Democritus

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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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.

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William