Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

- Yeats, William Butler

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Horace

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

Fountain., John

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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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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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Billings, Josh

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Feather, William

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Rooney, Andy

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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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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.