Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

- Upanishads, Veda

Best Quotes about Happiness

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Prazlin, Duchess

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

The laws of Manu

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

Roy M. Goodman

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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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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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Ann Radcliffe

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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 lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

John Berry

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel