Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Beckett, Samuel

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Robert Frost

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

Upanishads, Veda

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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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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.

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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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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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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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

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Camus, Albert

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

Maxwell, William

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

Goodman, Roy

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Orwell, George

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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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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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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

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

Kin Hubbard

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John