Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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Best Quotes about Happiness

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Cloete, Stuart

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lincoln, Abraham

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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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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 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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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Ayn Rand

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Bono, Edward De

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns