Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

- John Berry

Best Quotes about Happiness

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Prutz

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Herold, Don

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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Al Batt

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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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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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Dalai Lama