Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

- Lane, Rose Wilder

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Diderot, Denis

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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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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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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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

22.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Oscar Levant

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

David Assael

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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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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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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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 is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord