Top 1200 Genuine Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.

Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is directly related to how many people are in our lives and how deeply we are bonded with those people. And so I'm happy if I'm with Ann; I'm happier if I'm also with my family and my grandchildren.

The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.

But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin top layer altogether free of small black pits. And, like a watermelon, the whole thing can be covered with a plain dark rind.

Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.

There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.

As an artist, what you do represents who you are. Coming from a genuine, honest place - that's what I'm trying to do.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

Creativity is, quite simply, a genuine interest combined with initiative.

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.

To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.

I'm a genuine lover of music. I've always watched the Grammys from home.

There is nothing like Southern hospitality. It's such a beautiful and genuine thing.

Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which is the only thing capable of providing lasting peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual in nature. It depends on the happiness of others and it is based on love and affection.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.

According to the Bible, a genuine answer to prayer is getting what you ask for.

Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

I like to be depressing. I feel it's my duty to make everyone a little less happy. You know that line in the Declaration of Independence, "the pursuit of happiness"? I've come to think that it has no meaning at all. You cannot pursue happiness. And to think that this bad little sentence has determined our lives.

Happiness can come in a single moment. And in a single moment it can go again. But a single moment does not create it. Happiness is created through countless choices made and then made again throughout a lifetime. You are its host as well as its guest. You give it form, shape, individuality, texture, tone. And what it allows you to give can change your world. Happiness can be stillness. But it isn't still. It wraps, enchants, heals, consoles, soothes, delights, calms, inspires and connects. It is on your face and in your body. It is in your life and being.

The concept (of happiness) is universal. In Buddhism, it is called causeless joy, in Christianity, the kingdom of heaven within, and in Judaism it is called ashrei, an inner sense of holiness and health. Is Islam it is called falah, happiness and well-being, and in Hinduism it is called ananda, or pure bliss.

I'm a guy that appreciates spontaneity and a woman being genuine and different.

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.

It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.

Communicate your passion clearly, concisely and with genuine conviction.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I speak plainly, I don't beat around the bush, and I'm just genuine.

There are no problems, there is only confusion. When confusion passes away, there is only happiness. Happiness is not complicated at all.

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love

Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.

What if you have a genuine and captivating beauty that is marred only by your striving?

If you don't like somebody, just be genuine about it. You don't have to be anything else.

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.

A genuine desire to be ONE enhances our lives with peace and power.

Russia has demonstrated it is not committed to genuine partnership with the United States.

You've got to be genuine and not try and be someone else - but be a better you all the time.

Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.

We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world.

Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with brief moments of joy. Be alive to the abundant potential that surrounds you so that you live a life of peace and happiness with periods of challenging growth.

I hope people get genuine joy from our music.

Generally I always take genuine criticism. It's part of football.

I began by asking myself, “What do I want out of life?” And the answer was happiness. Investigating further, I went into the moment when I was feeling happiest. I discovered something which to me was startling at the time. It was when I was loving that I was happiest. That happiness equated to my capacity to love rather than to being loved. That was a starting point.

My father is genuine and frank. I don't have to say that, because everybody knows it.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND DEMONSTRATE TO EVERYONE... THAT THEIR FEAR IS GENUINE

Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

One of the things that you see ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree on is that strong relationships are a key to happiness, maybe the key to happiness. People who have more strong relationships in their lives just feel happier.

Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.

The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.

People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.