Motivational Quotes

Happiness

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

- Sivananda, Sri Swami

Best Quotes about Happiness

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Storm Jameson

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

Landor, Walter Savage

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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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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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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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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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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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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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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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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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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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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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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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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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