Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

- Democritus

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Rohn, Jim

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

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

Ann Radcliffe

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Camus, Albert

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

Herold, Don

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Horton, Doug

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Chuck Sigars

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

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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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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 an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mason, John L.

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel