Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Prevert, Jacques

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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

Fountain., John

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cloete, Stuart

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Rooney, Andy

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

Horace

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

Camus, Albert

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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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

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

John Berry

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Ayn Rand

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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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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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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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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

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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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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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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Abraham Lincoln