Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

Lao-tzu

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

Epicurus

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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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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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Bob Newhart

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

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

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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Prevert, Jacques

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Feather, William

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chuck Sigars

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Huxley, Aldous