Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Bono, Edward De

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

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

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Storm Jameson

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

John Berry

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Oprah Winfrey

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

Meredith, Owen

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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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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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Diderot, Denis

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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