Top 1200 What Is Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind.

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

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

Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.

Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness

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

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

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

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

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

Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness... happiness is when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.

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

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

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

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

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

Now I find my happiness in my music, what I'm doing in the ring, and being a mom. No one thing controls my happiness.

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

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

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

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

If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy.

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

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.

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

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