Top 1200 Road To Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner cartoons where in the middle of the cartoon, the hand of the artist appears on the screen and erases the Road Runner.

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

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

You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.

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

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

Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.

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

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

We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

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

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

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

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

The road to glory is difficult with its rocks and boulders, its strain and struggle. Things aren't always as easy as we would like. Surprises and pitfalls wait for us along the road of life. We're going to sweat and sway, we're going to wonder why things are the way they are. But every road has an end; every mountain has its peak. If we can just hold on and keep climbing, knowing that God is aware of how we're straining, he will bring us up and over the mountains.

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

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

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

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

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

A nomad I was even when I was very small and would stare at the road, that white spellbinding road headed straight for the unknown ... a nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

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.

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.

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.

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

When the wind is right and the cloud is gone, you can see down this road as far as Darjeeling," I told her. "But it is a long and difficult road, full of perils, and if a traveller on foot were to look at the length of it, his spirit would be overcome and he would sit down and refuse to go any further. You must not look to the end of the road, Portia. Look only to the step in front of you. That you can do. Just one step. And you will not make the journey alone.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

More than my own happiness, it's my mother's happiness that makes me happy.

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

Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. "You gotta be kidding." I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a "Fork" ain't it?)

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

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.

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

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