Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

- Ayn Rand

Best Quotes about Happiness

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

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

Josh Billings

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Garrison, Theodosia

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Lao-tzu

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Christopher Morley

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

The laws of Manu