Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Dumas, Alexandre

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Josh Billings

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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

The laws of Manu

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

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

Jeans, Sir James

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Jean Houston

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

Bob Newhart

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Lao-tzu

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Meredith, Owen

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

John Berry

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Orwell, George

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De