Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Maxwell, William

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Robert Frost

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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 a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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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

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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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

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

Heywood, John