Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Happiness

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Lao-tzu

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

Buchan, John

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Lucian

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

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Nash, Ogden

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Rooney, Andy

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

Prutz

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

Epicurus

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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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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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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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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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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

Christopher Morley