Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Robert Frost

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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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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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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

Jean Houston

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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 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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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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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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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Horton, Doug

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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 a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.