Top 1200 Striving For Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.

I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?

We were striving and struggling not just for a dream ticket, but a dream team...

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"

Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of our running so seldom brings it closer. But now and then there may be a moment. We look at something and know it is good and beautiful. Those moments are happiness.

Helmut Lang is an amazing man - always striving, always moving forward.

Trophies or no trophies, we are all just striving to do some really good art and help people's lives with it.

Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.

Happiness and suffering support each other. To be is to inter-be. It's like the left and the right. If the left is not there, the right cannot be there. The same is true with suffering and happiness, good and evil.

The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure.

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

Striving to make music that empowers people as opposed to making them feel like they're being beaten down every single day is so important.

One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.

I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy. The happiness of every living thing is what we want.

I think were all a part of something. We're striving (to be) more than we are...I really don't only see religion as being for people who are perfect. They've got it all set. And I'm not like that.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.

Never cease striving until you have seen God face to face.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening.

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

How often do you see young actors playing scholars? Or striving to be intellectuals, you know? It's not that often.

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won't solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Happiness does not come from external objects. It comes from peace of mind. You can be famous; you can be a king, a queen, anything. It does not necessarily bring happiness or peace of mind. It comes about through following dharma.

From being in Tibet and being around Tibetans, I feel like I've learned so much more about what brings a person happiness, about what actually brings myself happiness.

Happiness is not something you achieve. It's not something you do or someplace you get to. Happiness is something you inhabit.

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving.

Life happens fast. You have to have a Plan B, a backup plan and really figure out a way to have different avenues of income and just avenues of happiness. That is what is really important, being at peace and having that happiness.

Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.

I would just encourage my younger self to not care about people's perceptions and to love myself fully and to keep progressing and striving for what you are going to become.

The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can be set free as you journey forward into a balanced healthy and rewarding future.

I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although that end is what we have all ostensibly been striving to attain.

But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.

Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.

Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.

I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.

One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.

One of the things that you see ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree on is that strong relationships are a key to happiness, maybe the key to happiness. People who have more strong relationships in their lives just feel happier.

I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.

When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future".

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something.

Striving for equality and working together with people different from us is what America is all about, because beneath our differences we are bound by a common humanity we all share.

A lot of my career and my drive and my passion and my striving to be better and better was built on insecurity.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you.

Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.