Top 1200 Individual Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

I don't fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

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

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

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

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

The U.N.'s driving mission is to accumulate power at the expense of the sovereignity of individual nations and fundamental individual rights, and its gun-ban treaty proves it.

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

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

A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.