Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

- Zee, James Van Der

Best Quotes about Happiness

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

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

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

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

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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

12.

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

Camus, Albert

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

15.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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

19.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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 happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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

Prutz

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Roy M. Goodman

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.