Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

- Alcott, Louisa May

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Fichte, Johann G.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Stein, Ben

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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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 comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

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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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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Cloete, Stuart

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Rohn, Jim

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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 the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael