Motivational Quotes

Happiness

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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 does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Epicurus

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.