Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Stossel, John

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Oliphant, Margaret

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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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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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Ayn Rand

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Feather, William

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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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