Motivational Quotes

Happiness

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Happiness

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Camus, Albert

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

10.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

11.

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

Fountain., John

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

Josh Billings

13.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lao-tzu

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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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.

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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

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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 is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

33.

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

Stein, Ben

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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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 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

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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert