Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Muller, Max

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

The laws of Manu

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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

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Goodman, Roy

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

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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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

Robert Frost

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

Oscar Levant

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.