Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Heywood, John

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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

Bradley, Amanda

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Kin Hubbard

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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

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

Nicole Kidman

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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bob Newhart

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

Dyer, Wayne

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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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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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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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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.

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der