Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

- Anderson, Greg

Best Quotes about Happiness

1.

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

2.

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

3.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

4.

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

5.

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

6.

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

7.

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

Mill, John Stuart

8.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

9.

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

11.

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

Dalai Lama

12.

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

Nicole Kidman

13.

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

14.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

15.

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

Thomas Szasz

16.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

17.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

18.

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

19.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

22.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

25.

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

26.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

27.

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''

28.

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

Jackson, Holbrook

29.

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

Stein, Ben

30.

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

Storm Jameson

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

33.

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

Bentham, Jeremy

34.

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

35.

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

36.

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

37.

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

38.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

39.

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

40.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

42.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

46.

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

47.

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

48.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.