Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The secret of happiness is something to do.

- Burroughs, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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

Nielsen, A.

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

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

Prazlin, Duchess

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 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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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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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Democritus

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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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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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Feather, William

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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 a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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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