Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Smith, Adam

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

David Assael

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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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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 consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ketchel, Holly

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Horton, Doug

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Prutz

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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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