Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

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

Ayn Rand

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Dalai Lama

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

18.

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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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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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

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Addison, Joseph

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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.

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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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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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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

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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 seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.