Motivational Quotes

Happiness

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

- Fichte, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Maxwell, William

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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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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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Feather, William

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

Byron, Lord

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Rooney, Andy

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Stein, Ben

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Prevert, Jacques

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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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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Rohn, Jim

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Jean Houston

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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.