Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Nielsen, A.

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

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

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

John Berry

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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

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Prevert, Jacques

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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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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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

Greene, Graham

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

Dalai Lama

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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

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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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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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 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: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Roy M. Goodman