Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Oprah Winfrey

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Garrison, Theodosia

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

Feather, William

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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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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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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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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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Rohn, Jim

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Prutz

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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