Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

Bob Newhart

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Feather, William

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

Ketchel, Holly

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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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

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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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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.