Top 1200 Authentic Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness?

One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones

Now I find my happiness in my music, what I'm doing in the ring, and being a mom. No one thing controls my happiness.

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else--that is, that it is not with you.

Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work? Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless.

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.

When you see #? happiness in the happiness of others, that's when you will be truly happy.

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

Happiness doesn't come and go, what comes and goes is your attunement to happiness.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

To me, 'success' is happiness and my top tip for happiness would be to understand and learn to use perspective.

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness... happiness is when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.

External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind.

Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.

Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness, and that happiness is my tail. Therefore, I am chasing it: and when I catch it. I shall have happiness." Said the cat, "My son, I, too, have paid attention to the problems of the universe. I, too, have judged that happiness is in my tail. But, I have noticed that whenever I chase it, it keeps running away from me, and when I go about my business, it just seems to come after me wherever I go.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.

Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.

If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.

All around the country, individuals are choosing to redefine their lives and the pursuit of happiness in ways much closer to the original notion put forth by our Founding Fathers. Their notion of the "pursuit of happiness" wasn't just about acquiring money and power, but about doing your part to add to the civic happiness of the community.

The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.

Happiness will come to you when it comes from you. Others can only bring temporary happiness and not everyone understands you.

If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn’t have to be validated.

Happiness is not found, it is created. Happiness does not depend on all that we lack, but on the way in which we use all that we have

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

Happiness is not reaching your goal. Happiness is being on the way.

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

Life is Happiness. Happiness is the fact that I can do something right now.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness.

I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

Money can't buy happiness, unless you're favorite hooker's name is 'Happiness'.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.