Top 1200 Looking For Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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.

Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

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

Happiness doesn't come and go, what comes and goes is your attunement to happiness.

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

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

To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.

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.

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

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

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

[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

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

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

Life is Happiness. Happiness is the fact that I can do something right now.

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.

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

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.

Happiness is not reaching your goal. Happiness is being on the way.

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

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

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 "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness, and that happiness is my tail. Therefore, I am chasing it: and when I catch it. I shall have happiness." Said the cat, "My son, I, too, have paid attention to the problems of the universe. I, too, have judged that happiness is in my tail. But, I have noticed that whenever I chase it, it keeps running away from me, and when I go about my business, it just seems to come after me wherever I go.

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

With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

All around the country, individuals are choosing to redefine their lives and the pursuit of happiness in ways much closer to the original notion put forth by our Founding Fathers. Their notion of the "pursuit of happiness" wasn't just about acquiring money and power, but about doing your part to add to the civic happiness of the community.

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

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.

But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

I remember Julianne Moore talking about acting and she said, "I'm just looking for truth. When people watch, they're not looking to see me. They're looking to see themselves." That's one of my new favorite sayings

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

In my experience, people looking for progress aren't actually looking to move things forward. They're looking to be perceived in a certain way: as a forward thinker. It's about vanity rather than any altruistic motives for the art.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

We're looking to identify funds if we can. We're also looking at other resources to assist the government in making this a reality, ... At this point, we don't have a particular source of funding for that but we're still looking if we could help in finding another way to assist.

Power doesn't create happiness or unhappiness. It depends how you use it. Wisdom is the guiding force that directs happiness.

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.

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

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

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

When you see #? happiness in the happiness of others, that's when you will be truly happy.

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

The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.

Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and moral philosophers will agree that the happiness of the individual is the end of man. From this principle it will follow that the form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest numbers of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best. All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.