Top 1200 Happiness Now Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

You don't have to do anything to be happy, nor do you have to avoid anything. Happiness comes from within your mind. Happiness already exists.

When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you're in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.

Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.

But the reason we have this built-in desire for happiness is because we're created in God's image. He wired us to want to be happy. Unfortunately, we sometimes disassociate happiness from its true source, which is God Himself. Satan tempts us by offering us happiness, because he knows that's what we want. But he offers it in the wrong places, at the wrong times, and in the wrong things.

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.

If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.

It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.

What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?

The greatest happiness is family happiness.

Begrudging others leads to disharmony. Without harmony there can be no happiness. Therefore, let go of grudges and restore harmony. In a harmonious world, happiness is possible.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.

Happiness is the DNA of pleasure. My point is simply this: Pleasure comes from something on the outside. Happiness comes from within. It's a state you create by choice. It's a decision. It's an act of will.

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

The goal of all goals is happiness, and our emotions are like road signs on that journey toward the goal of happiness.

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

I truly believe happiness has a different meaning for everyone. But I also believe that the sense of self is the key to one's happiness.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else's dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

That to me is happiness when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.

Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within.

In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on himself. Now, as our misery comes from our belief, and not from the thing believed, it is necessary to be on the watch, so as not to be deceived by false guides. Sensation contains no intelligence or belief, but is a mere disturbance of the matter, called agitation, which produces mind, and is ready to receive the seed of error. Ever since man was created, there has been an element called error which has been busy inventing answers for every sensation.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.

Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.

Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.

Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.

There is no one way to Happiness. Happiness is the way! It's inside your head FIRST and everyplace else second

You don't find happiness, you make happiness.

Remember one thing: the one who brings unhappiness to others in the end becomes unhappy himself, and the one who brings happiness to others in the end reaches to the heights of happiness. That's why I am saying that someone who tries to give happiness develops the center of happiness inside himself, and someone who tries to bring unhappiness to others develops the center of unhappiness inside himself.

...there is no such thing as finding true happiness by searching for it directly. It must come, if it come at all, indirectly, or by the service, the love, and the happiness we give to others.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness - that happiness is a choice you make.

A little while ago, I had this realization that so much of my happiness depended on what my career was looking like at that time, and that's, like, death of happiness right there.

I thank God for happiness and sadnessIf you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

My idea of happiness is effortless happiness. The things that ground you. For me it's art and cooking, for example, and when I can be with my friends and the people I love and do simple things. That's when I'm the happiest.

There is the before. And then there is the after. Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.