Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Storm Jameson

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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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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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Nicole Kidman

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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

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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 seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Lao-tzu

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.