Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Happiness

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Storm Jameson

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

10.

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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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

25.

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Christopher Morley

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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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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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Johnson, Samuel

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Ketchel, Holly