Top 1200 Looking For Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.

I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society.

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they're good looking and some weeks they're not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She may not have been the best looking lady we ended up taking home but it was still very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much and let's have coffee.

On the Tube, you never see anyone looking you in your eye. They're all looking down at their screen.

Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.

As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.

The measure of your character is not what you do when people are looking. It’s what you do when you think no one is looking.

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

The problem isn't that the green jobs aren't sexy enough. It's that they're not plentiful enough. A young person looking for a job isn't looking just for a sexy job, they're looking for any job.

Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt.

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

If you do not feel deserving of happiness, consciously or subconsciously, or if you have accepted the idea that happiness is somehow wrong or cannot last, you will not respond appropriately when happiness comes knocking at your door in the form of romantic love. No matter how much you may have waited and cried, you will not welcome love when it arrives-you will find a way to sabotage it. What a challenge to resist this temptation! What an opportunity for true spiritual growth and transformation-to defy your negative feelings and honor the gift that life offers you!

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving word, a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which create happiness in the present moment. By nourishing awareness in the present moment, you can avoid causing suffering to yourself and those around you. The way you look at others, your smile, and your small acts of caring can create happiness. True happiness does not depend on wealth or fame.

Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.

We've gone from looking up at the moon to looking down at Instagram.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.

At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

Everything is unfolding based on causes and conditions. Our happiness or suffering is dependent on how we relate to the present moment. If we cling now, we suffer later. If we let go and respond with compassion or friendliness, we create happiness and well-being for the future.

I'm not a big watcher of myself. You start looking at things you shouldn't be looking at that have nothing to do with anything of importance.

I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach and the best car.

I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.

Misty May was looking for a partner, I was looking to stay at home, and the beach just came calling.

Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. In Buddhism, the impenetrable, separate, and individuated self is more of the problem than the solution.

China and the Asian territory is an incredible opportunity. We spend a lot of time looking at it, looking for the right partners.

Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.

I'm always looking for work. There are only two states of being an actor, so if I'm not working, I'm looking for employment.

Stop looking in the mirror and start looking out the window.

Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.

Whatever you are looking for is also looking for you. You see, don't only look. Be available and ready when it shows up

I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly to my own happiness, which I attribute to defecating twice a day with unfailing regularity.

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.

If you're looking for a quick hit, that means you're looking for something disposable.

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?

I am always looking for material - whether for my notebooks or for Twitter or Instagram - which means I'm looking for meaning.

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'

I was not looking for the money. I was looking for the opportunity that I was going to be a starter and play a decent amount of minutes.

The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

The movie not only about what story you're telling and who you're looking at. It's mostly about how you're telling it and how you're looking at it. And people who don't like it, who say, "Oh, it's not 'true' because you're looking at it in a stylized way" - it's a movie and it's fiction, so it's also a lot in the artistic direction that it is political.

People aren't coming to me looking for political essays or polemic - they're looking for a rattling good story.

I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.

Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the human race? The pursuit of happiness. Not happiness. The pursuit.

Looking for yourself is like a thirsty fish looking for water.

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

My game is pretty straightforward, I feel like. If there's a big point I'm looking for a forehand; looking to be aggressive.

You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.

Laney held up a hand. "I checked it out. He went there on scholarship and paid the rest with student loans. And he's good looking, too. Nate and I met him for dinner last night, and I subtly learned that he's looking to meet someone" "How did you learn that?" "I asked him if he was looking to meet someone" "that is subtle

The reality is that whatever you are looking for is, at the same time, looking for you. It all starts with believing before seeing.

In 'The Future and Its Enemies,' I argue that individual creativity and enterprise are not only personally satisfying but socially good, producing progress and happiness. For celebrating creativity and happiness, I have been called a fascist by critics on both coasts.

I’m constantly in doubt about what I’m doing, I’m constantly tortured, and that’s why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies. I’m not striving for happiness, I’m trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constant rethinking, and reevaluating what you’re doing, working and working until you feel it’s finished. And that’s an interesting point too, that you’ve got to know when to stop. Sometimes there’s a magical moment when everything comes together.

But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any random manner, but will perish unless he lives as his nature requires, so he is free to seek his happiness in any mindless fraud, but the torture of frustration is all he will find, unless he seeks the happiness proper to man. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Looking is not indifferent. There can never be any question of 'just looking'.