Motivational Quotes

Happiness

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

- Laura Moncur

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Robert Frost

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Diderot, Denis

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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

Solon

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Nash, Ogden

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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