Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Chuck Sigars

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Nicole Kidman

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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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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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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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Democritus

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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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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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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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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 hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

30.

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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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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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

Oscar Levant

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Horton, Doug

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bob Newhart

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Feather, William

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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 something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim