Motivational Quotes

Happiness

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

- Buchan, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Byron, Lord

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Muller, Max

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

The laws of Manu

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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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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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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Zee, James Van Der

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

Solon

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Chuck Sigars

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

William Cowper

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel