Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Boone, Daniel

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Nicole Kidman

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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

William Cowper

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

Stein, Ben

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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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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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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

Cloete, Stuart

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

Herold, Don

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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