Motivational Quotes

Happiness

People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

- Zimbler, Adam

Best Quotes about Happiness

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

Wilde, Oscar

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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 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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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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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

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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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 mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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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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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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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

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Lincoln, Abraham