Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Happiness

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lucian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Proverb, Scottish

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Clyde, R.D.

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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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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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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

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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Epicurus

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Nash, Ogden

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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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