Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Lane, Rose Wilder

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Prazlin, Duchess

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Prutz

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

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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 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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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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

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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 never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Proverb, Scottish

32.

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

Nicole Kidman

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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

James Oppenheim

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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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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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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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.