Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Al Batt

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

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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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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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 is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Jean Houston

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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 is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund