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 not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Horton, Doug

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

Huxley, Aldous

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horton, Doug

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

James Oppenheim

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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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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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.