Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Fichte, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

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

Robert Frost

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

Storm Jameson

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Zee, James Van Der

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Proverb, Scottish

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Prutz

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Roy M. Goodman

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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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 does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Orwell, George

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.