Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Roy M. Goodman

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

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

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Prazlin, Duchess

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Christopher Morley

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

Lao-tzu

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Lao-Tzu

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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

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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 is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

39.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness is a sort of action.