Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Happiness

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Garrison, Theodosia

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

The laws of Manu

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Thomas Szasz

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

12.

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

Ayn Rand

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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

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

Orwell, George

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

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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lao-tzu

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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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.

41.

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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

William Cowper