Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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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Best Quotes about Happiness

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

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

Marden, Orison Swett

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

John Berry

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Ayn Rand

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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

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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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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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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 a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Thomas Szasz

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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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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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart