Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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- Bradley, Amanda

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

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''

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

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

Roy M. Goodman

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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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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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Upanishads, Veda

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Zee, James Van Der

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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