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

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

Greene, Graham

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

11.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

12.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

13.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

14.

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

Farrall, Joseph

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

17.

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''

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

19.

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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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

26.

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

Proverb, Spanish

27.

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

28.

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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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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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John