Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Lao-Tzu

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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

25.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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 depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Maxwell, William

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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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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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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Prutz

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben