Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Rooney, Andy

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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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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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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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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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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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

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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