Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Happiness

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Prazlin, Duchess

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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 a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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

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

Boone, Daniel

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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hesse, Hermann

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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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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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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

Mason, John L.

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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 activity.

Aristotle

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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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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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David