Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

- Harrigan, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Aristotle

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

Sokoloff, Boris

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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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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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Lao-tzu

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Stein, Ben

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

32.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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.