Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

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Best Quotes about Happiness

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Kennedy, John F.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Solon

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Epicurus

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

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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

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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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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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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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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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 requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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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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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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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

49.

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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt