Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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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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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel