Motivational Quotes

Happiness

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

- Caron, Leslie

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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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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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Johnson, Samuel

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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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 depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, Scottish

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett