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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
Happiness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Happiness

1.
The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

2.
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

3.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza

4.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Carlyle, Thomas

5.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.
Immanuel Hermann Fichte

6.
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
Millman, Dan

7.
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Landor, Walter Savage

8.
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
Solon

9.
Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.
Proverb, Russian

10.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Goodman, Roy

11.
Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

12.
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

13.
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Chopra, Deepak

14.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.
Fichte, Johann G.

15.
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
Greene, Graham

16.
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
Yeats, William Butler

17.
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
Horton, Doug

18.
Happiness lies first of all in health.
Curtis, George William

19.
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Jackson, Holbrook

20.
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

21.
The happier the moment the shorter.
Pliny The Elder

22.
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Jefferson, Thomas

23.
Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.
Nielsen, A.

24.
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

25.
Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
Mason, John L.

26.
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.

27.
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
Lucas, E. V.

28.
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
Sondreal, Palmer

29.
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
Saroyan, William

30.
If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.
Prutz

31.
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

32.
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

33.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

34.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

35.
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

36.
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

37.
We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.
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

39.
It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

40.
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

41.
Happiness requires problems
Hollingworth, H. L.

42.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Chuck Sigars

43.
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

44.
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.

45.
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
Lane, Rose Wilder

46.
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

47.
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

48.
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Alcott, Louisa May

49.
Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good
Fountain., John

50.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns


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