Motivational Quotes

Happiness

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Happiness

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Lucian

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

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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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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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

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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 the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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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 cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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 is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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