Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

- Kindleberger, J.

Best Quotes about Happiness

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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

Diderot, Denis

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

John Berry

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

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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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 a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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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

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

Herold, Don

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Democritus

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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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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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