Motivational Quotes

Happiness

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Nicole Kidman

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Camus, Albert

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Sokoloff, Boris

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

10.

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

Proverb, Scottish

11.

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

C. P. Snow

13.

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

Nielsen, A.

14.

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

15.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

16.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

17.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

18.

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

19.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

20.

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.

21.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

22.

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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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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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

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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

27.

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

Roy M. Goodman

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

30.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

31.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

33.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

34.

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

Greene, Graham

35.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

39.

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

40.

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

41.

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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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

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

44.

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

Buchan, John

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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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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 the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

49.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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Where one is wise two are happy.