Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Lao-tzu

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proust, Marcel

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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

Abraham Lincoln

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

Christopher Morley

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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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