Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

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Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Mason, John L.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Bob Newhart

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

Storm Jameson

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

Muller, Max

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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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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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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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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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Jean Houston

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.