Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Meredith, Owen

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

C. P. Snow

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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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 having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Greene, Graham

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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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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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Goodman, Roy

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Bob Newhart

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

Ketchel, Holly

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.