Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Roy M. Goodman

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

Proust, Marcel

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Bob Newhart

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

Stossel, John

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

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

Maxwell, William

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Lao-Tzu

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Lucian

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von