Top 1200 True Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

This philosophical postulate that the end of all being is the happiness of man has been sort-of covered over with evangelical terms and biblical doctrine - until God reigns in heaven for the happiness of man, Jesus Christ was incarnate for the happiness of man, all the angels exist and ... everything is for the happiness of man - and I submit to you that this is unchristian.

Struggle is actually something that is important to the process of understanding what true happiness is.

True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.

The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.

But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight.

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.

After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains-one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it.

You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.

There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness

Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. Happiness is a direction, not a place.

When you're Happy for No Reason, you bring happiness to your outer experiences rather than trying to extract happiness from them. You don't need to manipulate the world around you to try to make yourself happy. You live from happiness, rather than for happiness.

In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved.

Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.

The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.

If you are happy, happiness will come to you because happiness wants to go where happiness is.

All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy, that's when happiness happens.

True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness

Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop.

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.

Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true.

And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.

The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

How do you spell love?... when you reach the point where the happiness, security and development of another person is as much of a driving force to you as your own happiness, security, and development, then you have a mature love. True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

The secret of true happiness lies within unwavering devotion to God

We say that God is true; that the Constitution of the United States is true; that the Bible is true; and that the Book of Mormon is true, and that Christ is true

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Real and true happiness is having a relationship with God and not what makes us happy.

The gospel of Jesus Christ has the answers to all of our problems. The gospel is not a secret. It is not complicated or hidden. It can unlock the door to true happiness. It is not someone's theory or proposition. It does not come from man at all. It springs from the pure and everlasting waters of the Creator of the universe, who knows truths we cannot even begin to comprehend. And with that knowledge, He has given us the gospel-a divine gift, the ultimate formula for happiness and success.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

I truly am living out what true joy and happiness means.

True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.

Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies by division. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

The desire for true happiness is nothing to feel ashamed about.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.