Top 1200 Past Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable.

I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.

The past is such a subtle thing. [But] in the end, nothing else exists, everything is made of the past, even the future.

Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.

Don't live in the past and don't carry the past around like a burden.

Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically.

But solving problems of disease is not the same thing as creating health and happiness. (...) Health and happiness are the expression of the manner in which the individual responds and adapts to the challenges that he meets in everyday life.

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.

Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.

I never dreamed that my future would be my husband's past. But it's such a huge past in terms of the recorded content.

Happiness doesn't come from making a fortune and owning lots of possessions. 'Stuff' doesn't bring happiness. Family, friends, good health and the satisfaction that comes from making a positive difference are what really matter.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

At times it may seem as though you and your past are one. Sometimes we fail to differentiate between what has happened to us and who we are today. If you have a hard time getting beyond that damaging mind-set let me encourage you right now. You are not your past Although you are changed and shaped by past experiences who you were yesterday does not control the person you have the potential to become tomorrow.

For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research.

Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person.

Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

By all means be selfish; the right way. Wish yourself well, labour at what is good for you. Destroy all that stands between you and happiness. Be all; love all; be happy; make happy. No happiness is greater.

Real joy and happiness come from living in such a way that our Heavenly Father will be pleased with us. ... One cannot break God's commandments and be happy. We should remember the scripture, "Wickedness never was happiness"

The past is the past, and I can't go back in time to change anything.

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.

The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.

Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift i guess thats why its the present

If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.

For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

Things past redress are now with me past care

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

When I'm driving past the place I used to work, or when I'm driving past the comedy studio where I used to take photos in exchange for classes, or when I'm driving past the yoga studio I used to clean on the weekends - it's not that far removed from me yet. I get very sentimental over things like that.

Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.

You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

They say people live to be happy. If you actually think about what happiness is, it's nothing much. When you get to eat ramen after feeling really, really hungry, that's happiness.

Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happiness, the happiness of brotherhood, they would all want to live the true and brotherly life.

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.

Personally, I've never had it as a goal in life to be happy. Seems impossible to achieve. Even the Declaration of Independence seems to acknowledge this. They talk about the pursuit of happiness, not happiness itself.

Liberals tend to romanticize the past, past leaders' failures.

The biggest mistake investors make is to believe that what happened in the recent past is likely to persist. They assume that something that was a good investment in the recent past is still a good investment. Typically, high past returns simply imply that an asset has become more expensive and is a poorer, not better, investment.

People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

If we strive for happiness, it's going to be elusive because things constantly happen with human beings that disrupt that happiness. But if you focus on euphoros, the Greek word for "the bearer of goodness," you will be inhabited by the divine source of life.

There's nothing worse than saying the past is in the past, then dragging it into your kid's life.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.