Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Josh Billings

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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.

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

Horace

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

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

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Stein, Ben

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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 impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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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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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

James Oppenheim

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

Feather, William

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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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 makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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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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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand