Finding Happiness Quotes - Page 9

• 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

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• 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).

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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

  Martha Washington

  Happiness, Happy, Attitude

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• 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

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• 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

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• Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Heart, Simplicity, Suffering

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 246), 1895.

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• 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

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• Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Self, Envy, Energy

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• When I look around I think this, this is good enough; And I laugh at whatever life brings because when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up, I just trip over things.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, Laughing, Missing

  Ani DiFranco (2011). “Ani DiFranco: Verses”, p.24, Seven Stories Press

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• The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest, it is as if we open an inner door. It reduces fear, boosts confidence and brings us inner strength. By reducing distrust, it opens us to others and brings us a sense of connection to others, and sense of purpose and meaning in life.

  Dalai Lama

  Strength, Confidence, Buddhist

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• One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, One Day, Trouble

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• Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above. We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Romantic, Summer, Sunshine

  Song: Symptom Of The Universe

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• Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Happiness, Children, Lying

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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

  Peter Sheppard Skaerved

  Inspirational, Journey, Destination

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• I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness.  I don’t believe that anymore.  I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him.  He knows how He wants us to use them.

  Francine Rivers

  Father, Believe, Purpose

  Francine Rivers (2013). “Redeeming Love”, p.447, Lion Fiction

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• 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

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• 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

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• In joy, in peace, in that soothing inner state, you will find happiness.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Joy, States, Soothing

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• I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

  Happiness, Happy, Positive Thinking

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• May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.

  Facundo Cabral

  Children, Men, Thinking

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