Top 1200 Individual Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.

I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

Those who run after happiness will never be happy. Happiness is something that has to come to the fore from within.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness

Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.

But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!

People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest day he believes in spring.

It's very easy to look for happiness outside ourselves; in a relationship, a dream job, or the perfect body weight. When we chase happiness externally, we're simply looking for God in all the wrong places. The outside search is based on false projections we place on the world. These projections build up a wall against true happiness, which lies within us.

Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.

Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.

You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.

The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.

Chase your happiness in a way you desire rather than going for anybody else's or society's idea of happiness.

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.

Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.

I've been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

Parties are organised happiness but happiness is accidental. You can't legislate for it.

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

We tend to Seek Happiness when Happiness is actually a Choice

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

when your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love

No happiness gives happiness until you share it with someone.

What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Gratitude is pure happiness. Happiness is sure perfection.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

We must forget the prewar time, which was totally different. The sooner we adjust ourselves to the new, changed world, to its new, albeit harsh, beauties, the sooner will each individual be able to find his own personal happiness. The distress of Germany will spiritualize and deepen us.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think either that the other's pain may somehow be a cause of happiness for themselves or that their own happiness is more important, regardless of what pain it may cause. But this is shortsighted. No one truly benefits from causing harm to another sentient being. . . . . In the long run causing others misery and infringing their rights to peace and happiness result in anxiety, fear, and suspicion within oneself.

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.