Top 1200 Perfect Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made

This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.

Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.

Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.

As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.

I truly believe happiness has a different meaning for everyone. But I also believe that the sense of self is the key to one's happiness.

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was?

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

I have no regrets about buying Fulham. Absolutely not. This is a perfect club for what we wanted to do. It's absolutely historic, small, and has just the perfect fan base.

Respect your kids. They are their own people. I think sometimes we expect kids to be perfect when we're not perfect.

Something I'd like to be perfect at? ... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you.

It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

We are perfect. According to God, we are perfect, yet we know that we are sinners. We believe in the fact that we are both saints and sinners at the same time as we live in this world.

Love is sometimes shown in the things you don't say, don't keep track of and don't notice. The greatest kindness is often shown in letting things go. None of us is perfect, but we can all be perfect friends and perfect partners by allowing those that we love to be imperfect. Give those around you the 'break' that you hope the world will give you on your own 'bad day' and you'll never, ever regret it.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

The difference between happiness is no-where and happiness is now-here has something to do with the event, and everything to do with how you see the event. Your perception is key.

Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.

Perfect practice makes perfect.

There is that kind of happiness. There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.

Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness.

Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.

A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.

I think my least favourite thing to listen to is perfect songs, perfect performances. They don't feel human to me, and in that respect ,they lose any kind of sincerity. I don't know why. It's just my ears.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.

I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.

The goal of all goals is happiness, and our emotions are like road signs on that journey toward the goal of happiness.

Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.

...there is no such thing as finding true happiness by searching for it directly. It must come, if it come at all, indirectly, or by the service, the love, and the happiness we give to others.

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.

Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect ‘woman of mystery’ is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.

I thank God for happiness and sadnessIf you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is

But the reason we have this built-in desire for happiness is because we're created in God's image. He wired us to want to be happy. Unfortunately, we sometimes disassociate happiness from its true source, which is God Himself. Satan tempts us by offering us happiness, because he knows that's what we want. But he offers it in the wrong places, at the wrong times, and in the wrong things.

Don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.

Happiness is just a great equalizer. It's like water. You pour happiness liberally and all sorts of great things are going to happen.

Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

You're never going to look perfect to yourself even if you might look perfect to somebody else.

Before I was abducted, I think that happiness was related to success. Nowadays happiness is related, for me, to rest, peace, serenity.

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.

I think Hillary Clinton's style is perfect. Perfect. You don't notice what she's wearing, you notice the woman.

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

I want to put a soul in a garment. I don't want my clothes to be perfect, because human beings are not perfect.