Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Herold, Don

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

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Dumas, Alexandre

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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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.

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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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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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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

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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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 absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Proust, Marcel

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

Feather, William

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Prevert, Jacques

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.