Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness requires problems

- Hollingworth, H. L.

Best Quotes about Happiness

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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 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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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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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

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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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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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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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

Fountain., John

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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.