Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Bono, Edward De

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

The laws of Manu

2.

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

3.

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

Carnegie, Dale

4.

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

Greene, Graham

5.

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

6.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

7.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

8.

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

9.

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''

10.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

11.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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

13.

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

14.

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

Lao-Tzu

15.

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

16.

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

17.

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

Beckett, Samuel

18.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

20.

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

Boone, Daniel

21.

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

Ketchel, Holly

22.

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

Feather, William

23.

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

24.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

25.

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

26.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

28.

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

Camus, Albert

29.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

30.

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

31.

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

32.

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

33.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

34.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

35.

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Johnson, Samuel

39.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

40.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.