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

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Epicurus

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Prevert, Jacques

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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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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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 is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Proverb, Scottish

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Ketchel, Holly

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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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

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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 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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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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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

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

Feather, William

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

Aristotle

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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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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander