Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

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Best Quotes about Happiness

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Goodman, Roy

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

James Oppenheim

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

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

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Roy M. Goodman

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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

Bob Newhart

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Lao-Tzu

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Camus, Albert

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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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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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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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Ann Radcliffe