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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Muller, Max

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Solon

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Lao-Tzu

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.