Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Storm Jameson

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Brande, Dorothea

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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 two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Stossel, John

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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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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 something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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 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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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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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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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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Christopher Morley

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

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Proust, Marcel

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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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 activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Oscar Levant

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas