Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

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Best Quotes about Happiness

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Billings, Josh

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

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Garrison, Theodosia

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

Kin Hubbard

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Storm Jameson

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

Stein, Ben

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bono, Edward De

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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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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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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

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Nicole Kidman

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

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William