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

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

Ayn Rand

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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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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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

21.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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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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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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

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

Al Batt

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.