Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

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

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.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Feather, William

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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

Democritus

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Addison, Joseph

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Al Batt

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Dalai Lama

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

Horton, Doug