Top 1200 My Own Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

Health: thank the universe for your own healing. Laugh, stress free happiness will keep you healthy.

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed by any, save those who out of their own human selfishness construct the attributes of Divinity, to be absorbed throughout eternity in the contemplation of His own ineffable bliss, were it not identical with His ineffable goodness and love.

Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to pursue his own happiness in any way that he chooses. No one has the authority to grant rights to anyone else, because human beings already possess all natural rights at birth. These rights include both personal and economic freedoms, and the only way they can be lost is if someone takes them away by force. The only right that an individual does not naturally possess is the right to violate someone else's liberty.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

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.

God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had sinned; but as it is he has set his love upon particular sinners, and this means that, by his own free voluntary choice, he will not know perfect and unmixed happiness again till he has brought every one of them to heaven. He has in effect resolved that henceforth for all eternity his happiness shall be conditional upon ours.

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

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

Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

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.

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

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

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

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

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

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

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.

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

Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.

Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.

Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.

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.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else.

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

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

The best way to serve God is by going in search of your own dreams. Only the happy can spread happiness.

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

If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

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

Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.

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

Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown.

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

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

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

You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.

Not only is your own happiness and welfare related to others, but the more you help them, the happier you will be.

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness is not an arrival, it is the journey itself. Many people seek for happiness above the height of human beings, some below. Yet, happiness is exactly at the exact height of human beings.

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

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

The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance, and of endurance into character, and of character into hope--and the hope that has become our joy does not (as happiness must for those who depend up on it) disappoint us.

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

Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.

The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own and control things. Your spirit already knows you own nothing. It is a matter of realizing that your happiness does not depend on your ownership of things. They help you in your journey but they are not the journey itself.

Feeling very happy - why? An explanation is needed. No, happiness needs no explanation, happiness is its own explanation. God is creating because that is the only way he can be happy, that is the only way he loves, that is the only way he sings, that's the only way he can be at all. Creation is his innermost nature, no why is needed.

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

You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

Real happiness comes from having an unassailable connection to the deep state of unbounded awareness at our core. This state of being is our own inner joy that expresses the exuberance and wonder of being alive at this moment; it is our own self-luminous essence made conscious of itself.

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

Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn’t have to be limited by anyone else’s stupidity unless you allow it to be.

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