Top 1200 Authentic Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I hope movies like 'Love, Simon' encourage people to be their authentic selves.

Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts Productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world.

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.

...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.

Happiness does not come from external things as we're really taught as children. It doesn't come from Santa Claus. Happiness is from within your mind. Just realizing that will change your whole life.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

I guess when you're holding the creative reins, you can be across everything, and it's more authentic. You can control it.

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

Advice for young people who want to channel their personality into creative work - be authentic.

It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian.

True religion is not a mere doctrine, something that can be taught, but is a way of life. A life in community with God. It must be experienced to be appreciated. A life of service. A living by giving and finding one's own happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.

Nothing matters as long as you are kind and authentic. If you are, then you did your best, and that is all you can do.

Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.

To be conscious of one's weakness and to trust in God's help is the way to authentic strength and victory.

Part of why I love Greek food so much is that it is simple, but it's unpretentious. It's authentic.

Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.

True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

In the West, for example, people believe they must 'pursue happiness' as if it were some kind of a flighty bird that is always out of reach. In the East, we believe we are born with happiness and one of life's important takes, my mother told me, is to protect it.

I'll often use my real stuff in my writing because it comes across as more authentic.

If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

When you do something that you know is authentic - embrace it, run with it, and trust yourself before the critics.

There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.

Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.

Authentic journalism is telling people something that the government doesn't want them to know.

If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.

Stay close to those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and whose eyes sparkle with happiness. Because happiness is contagious and will always manage to find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation for the mistake made.

Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

To build authentic relationships you need to lead with generosity & serve them first

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

I don't knock anyone's hustle, but I didn't want to slap my name on anything that wasn't authentic to me.

Commitment to love - to growth, to authentic power is an everyday application of your will.

Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today.

I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings of anxiety, rage, doubt, and sadness. But happiness is something entirely different. It's the ability to receive the pleasant without grasping and the unpleasant without condemning.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

The first few glasses of beer were a revelation; they flushed my veins with happiness; they washed away all cares and shyness and worries. I remember thinking to myself, If I could have two pints of beer every afternoon, life would be a great happiness.

Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.

First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic.

Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

Guys are really lucky. We become our authentic selves the older we get.

Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.

I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

The response that comes from chanting is in the form of bliss, or spiritual happiness, which is a much higher taste than any happiness found here in the material world. That's why I say that the more you do it, the more you don't want to stop, because it feels so nice and peaceful.

One of my friends is single and he hates being single and I'm like, you need to figure out how to be happy on your own before you can actually be with someone else. They bring extra happiness, they don't bring the happiness.

I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.

Markets help people pursue their happiness more efficiently and effectively. Because they are so effective, markets provide benefits right here and right now, even while government is busy batching the protection of happiness.

For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding.