Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

- Koenig, Frederick

Best Quotes about Happiness

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Solon

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Goodman, Roy

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

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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 a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Nielsen, A.

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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Saroyan, William

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

Prutz

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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 foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

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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

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Chuck Sigars

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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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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Thomas Szasz

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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.