Top 999 Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

The first rule of negotiation is to always be willing to walk away from the deal. The first rule of happiness is to not be attached to pleasing moments.

The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Happiness is very simple and minimal.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That's when I realized that excitement, if it's happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

To me, flowers are happiness.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

I try to be a good daughter, as I believe in karma and feel that how you are with your parents is directly proportionate to what you receive in your life. I am a big oneness follower, and our gurus have told us that if you want to achieve external happiness, you need to be happy internally. And your inner circle is your family.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

People often confuse self-respect with arrogance. I believe that there is a very thin line between the two. Balance between the two is often what leads to happiness.

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

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.

For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

Football is my happiness.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.