Top 1200 Happiness Now Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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 main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

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.

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.

Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.

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

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

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

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

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

If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

There's a happiness about me, a confidence and a happiness now that I didn't have when I was younger. You feel good inside, you look good outside. I have a few little gray hairs on my chin, and I kind of like them. I feel like I look like somebody who's having a good life, who's enjoying it a little better than I did before. You can be really good-looking in your twenties but feel miserable, and people just sort of walk away.

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

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

Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.

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.

Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

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

You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now.

The technological age we're in now is the perfect forum for constant misdirection and constant distraction. I ultimately think it's a war to keep people from realizing the true nature of themselves and the true nature of life. All the things people are in pursuit of now, in 2014, are total illusions. It just destroys people's happiness.

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

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.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

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

He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness.

Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived... The pain now is part of the happiness then.

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

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

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of 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.

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

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

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

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

I used to say that 'happy' was like 'lucky,' kind of imaginary. But now that I'm married and have children, I find that happiness is a real space.

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.

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'.

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.

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

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

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

Don't postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.

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

Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions

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

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.

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