Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is activity.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Happiness

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

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

Greene, Graham

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

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

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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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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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Kin Hubbard

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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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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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Stossel, John

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Al Batt

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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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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Christopher Morley

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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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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 good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand