Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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

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

Robert Frost

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

Byron, Lord

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Bob Newhart

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

Horace

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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 cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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

James Oppenheim

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

Horton, Doug

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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