Top 1200 Searching For Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

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

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

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest day he believes in spring.

A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it. It's embracing a higher reality. When you look a little closer, the way that I define it or explain it, is that the blues is the naked cry of the human heart, apart from God. People are searching for union with God. They're searching to be home. There's something in people that seeks this union with their creator. Why am I here? Where am I going? What's it all about? Who am I? All this kind of stuff.

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

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

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.

Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?

Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

We tend to Seek Happiness when Happiness is actually a Choice

Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.

As a man, if you're married, your happiness is with her happiness. If she's unhappy, everything's messed up. It's a woman's world for sure.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Parties are organised happiness but happiness is accidental. You can't legislate for it.

If happiness could be bought, we'd probably be unhappy at the price tag. If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting wealthy and spending more.

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.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

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.

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

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

Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

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.

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

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

It's very easy to look for happiness outside ourselves; in a relationship, a dream job, or the perfect body weight. When we chase happiness externally, we're simply looking for God in all the wrong places. The outside search is based on false projections we place on the world. These projections build up a wall against true happiness, which lies within us.

Gratitude is pure happiness. Happiness is sure perfection.

The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world has sprung into existence.

People are made for happiness. Rightly, then, you thirst for happiness. Christ has the answer to this desire of yours. But he asks you to trust him.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

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

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

when your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

I've been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.

Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it about and, in particular, from the real situation. Man has to be affected with happiness. It is a tonality given to him. Contradiction: if one does take care to give him happiness, it is because he is a free creature--but in order to give it to him, one turns him into an object.

Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

All moments of joy include an element of happiness. But not all moments of happiness include joy. Happiness often comes from drive reduction-avoidance of pain or the pursuit of pleasure for pleasure's sake. The essence of joy, on the other hand, is spirit.

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.

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

No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.

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

No happiness gives happiness until you share it with someone.