Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

- Buckrose, J.E

Best Quotes about Happiness

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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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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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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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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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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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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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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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Nielsen, A.

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

Greene, Graham

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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''

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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 serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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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 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