Top 1200 Looking For Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the present tense.

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

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

There'll be no more big powers and oppressed poor - only fairness and justice for all, and eternal happiness. So if you're looking for the perfect city and the perfect government in the perfect country with perfect people, just wait a little while longer - it's coming

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

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

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

Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

In L.A., you see a lot of women who get into these trends for inner happiness while putting most of their energy into looking younger. It's Botox on Tuesday, laser on Wednesday, some weird juice cleanse having nothing to do with health and everything to do with losing weight the next day.

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

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness?

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

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness... happiness is when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.

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

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

Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.

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

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

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

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

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

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

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

Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being. 82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

The places we'd play were full of bikers, brawlers, and drinkers coming off a day of work looking for a good time, and all these guys would be looking at me like Hannibal Lecter looking at his next victim.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness.

If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.

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

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

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

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

To me, 'success' is happiness and my top tip for happiness would be to understand and learn to use perspective.

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

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

External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind.

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.

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.

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

If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.

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

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

Now I find my happiness in my music, what I'm doing in the ring, and being a mom. No one thing controls my happiness.

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.