Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Ketchel, Holly

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Prutz

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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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 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 includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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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

29.

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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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 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

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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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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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 harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James