Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Jeans, Sir James

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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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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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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Diderot, Denis

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