Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a sort of action.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Bradley, Amanda

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

Nielsen, A.

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

Stossel, John

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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

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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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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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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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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Lucian

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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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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

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.