Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Schweitzer, Albert

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Addison, Joseph

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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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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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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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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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 is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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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

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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 the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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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

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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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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

Feather, William

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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