Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

- Al Batt

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Rooney, Andy

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

Kin Hubbard

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

William Cowper

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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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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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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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

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

Chuck Sigars

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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De