Finding Happiness Quotes - Page 8

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

  F. H. Bradley

  Happiness, Secret, Admiration

  Aphorisms (1930) no. 33

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

  David Brainerd

  Happiness, Happy, World

  David Brainerd (1824). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians, from the Society in Scotland, for Propagating Christian Knowledge: Who Died at Northampton, in New-England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age”, p.302

  102 Copy quote

  Show source

• We may writhe in agony from pain
  Or laugh out loud when we find happiness
  As long as we're alive tomorrow will come
  we become stronger and keep on living
  We were born to live

  Miho Obana

  Pain, Agony, Long

  5 Copy quote

• We're just trying to find happiness in the bodies and minds we were given, like everyone else.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Mind, Trying, Body

  4 Copy quote

• You find happiness where you find it.

  Anna Paquin

  4 Copy quote

• And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add up to our lives. To notice connections. To be amused or perhaps frightened by the ways things work out. If the universe is indifferent, what a consolation that we are not.

  Roger Ebert

  Work Out, Events, Connections

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, p.680, Andrews McMeel Publishing

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Find happiness by enjoying the journey, not by awaiting the destination.

  Peter Sheppard Skaerved

  Inspirational, Journey, Destination

  6 Copy quote

• The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when... When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job. When I get the relationship,’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. 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.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Happiness, Happy, Jobs

  103 Copy quote

• You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness
  isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Getting What You Want, World, Realizing

  303 Copy quote

• To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happy, Peace, Buddhist

  65 Copy quote

• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

  442 Copy quote

• Finding happiness is not as simple as having good friends or a full social life. The crunch issue is our ability, or inability, to find within ourselves a sense of meaning or deeper purpose, something not found in everyday life.

  Mark Vernon

  Spiritual, Good Friend, Simple

  6 Copy quote

• As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Nice, Long, And Love

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.

  Confucius

  Water, Needs, Arms

  6 Copy quote

• Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

  Anna Pavlova

  Giving, Wish, Theatre

  Quoted in A H Franks (ed) Pavlova: A Biography,'Pages of My Life' (1956).

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with everybody (including yourself), yours is not a successful life. Existence becomes futile if you cannot find happiness. When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Successful, Goal, Mind

  33 Copy quote

• Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Healing, Our World

  "3 Things That Happen to Your Life When You Stop Taking Things Personally" by Tara-Nicholle Nelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 8, 2016.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity there is in wine steadily refuses to impart its glow to their shriveled hearts.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Heart, Wine, Men

  9 Copy quote

• I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.

  Douglas Coupland

  Idaho, Cafes, Want

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.77, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us — and this is remarkable — the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea.

  Rich Mullins

  Running, Ideas, People

  Seminar at LeSEA Broadcasting Studios in South Bend, Indiana, February 1993.

  126 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

  Martha Washington

  Happiness, Happy, Attitude

  33 Copy quote

• I've won a medal, but that's nothing compared to the crown I'll get in Heaven. I see a lot of people in sports who think when they reach a certain level they've got it made, but really, you can only find happiness in the Lord.

  Cindy Klassen

  Sports, Thinking, People

  7 Copy quote

• Happiness is a byproduct of helping others. No man ever finds happiness by thinking of himself. True happiness comes when we lose ourselves in the service of others – when we are merciful to our fellowmen.

  Royden G. Derrick

  Helping Others, Men, Thinking

  17 Copy quote

• The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Gratitude, Giving, Moments

  4 Copy quote

• Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become. The difference is that, unlike the body, when it comes to training the mind, there is no limit to how far we can go.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Exercise

  42 Copy quote