Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

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Best Quotes about Happiness

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Boone, Daniel

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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

Bradley, Amanda

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

Horton, Doug

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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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 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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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Dalai Lama

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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 a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen