Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

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

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

Horace

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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 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

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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 lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

George Burns

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Prevert, Jacques

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Maxwell, William

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles 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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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

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

Nielsen, A.

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

Fielding, Henry

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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 like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Solon

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

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald