Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Lucian

Best Quotes about Happiness

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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

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

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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.

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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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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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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

Lao-Tzu

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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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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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 is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Epictetus

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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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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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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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 human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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