Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Farrall, Joseph

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Meltzer, Bernard

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bob Newhart

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Stein, Ben

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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

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

Josh Billings

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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

Jeans, Sir James

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ketchel, Holly

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot