Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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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 never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

John Berry

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Proust, Marcel

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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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

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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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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow