Top 1200 Greatest Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance, and of endurance into character, and of character into hope--and the hope that has become our joy does not (as happiness must for those who depend up on it) disappoint us.

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

I think one of the things we have in this modern, individualistic age is a recognition that happiness can look very different for very different people. Happiness is not necessarily about how much money you make, happiness isn't necessarily about these aspects of your life.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

A feeling that greater possessions, no matter of what kind they may be, will of themselves bring contentment or happiness, is a misunderstanding. No person, place, or thing can give you happiness. They may give you cause for happiness and a feeling of contentment, but the JOY of Living comes from within.

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

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

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.

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

I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

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.

Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy.

If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life.

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

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

More than my own happiness, it's my mother's happiness that makes me happy.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

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

So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

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.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

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

Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.

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

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

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.

Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness is not an arrival, it is the journey itself. Many people seek for happiness above the height of human beings, some below. Yet, happiness is exactly at the exact height of human beings.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

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

Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness

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

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

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

Appreciation empowers not just money transactions, but all interactions. Gratitude is one of the greatest meditations of a lifetime, the fastest attitude uplifter I know. Be grateful for all the good in your life and your good will only increase, along with your happiness.

So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These make happiness secure. An equal diffusion of happiness so far as laws and institutions avail.

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

Put your attention on happiness by practicing the Happiness Habits each day.

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.