Genuine Happiness Quotes

• What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Happiness, Insightful

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• 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Spiritual, Compassion

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• Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

  Andrew Weil

  Joy, Feelings, Spontaneous

  "Q&A: 'Spontaneous Happiness' with Andrew Weil". Interview with Daniel Lefferts and Luke Dempsey, www.usatoday.com. March 21, 2013.

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• A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Happy Person, Persons

  Daisaku Ikeda (2017). “Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays”, p.102, Middleway Press

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• Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Inspiring, Focus, Way

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• The most important thing in life is human affection.
  Without it one cannot achieve genuine happiness.
  And if we want a happier life, a happier family, happier neighbours
  or a happier nation, the key is inner quality.
  Even if the five billion human beings that inhabit the earth become
  millionaires, without inner development there cannot be peace
  or any lasting happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Things In Life, Lasting Happiness, Keys

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• I feel like people focus too much on what other people think of their lives and trying to appear like they have it all together rather than focusing on just being happy. You can't control the perception of others no matter how hard you try. Do things that promote personal growth and health. Genuine happiness is hard to miss.

  Melanie Iglesias

  Thinking, People, Focus

  "Melanie Iglesias: The Practice of Happiness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Genuine happiness comes from focusing on the happiness of others.

  Dalai Lama

  Genuine

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• The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

  William Morris

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.94, Cambridge University Press

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• And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another.

  Hermann Hesse

  Butterfly, Blue, Hundred

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• Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Foundation, Cuisine, Culinary

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• The key to genuine happiness is in our hands. To think this way is to discover the essential values of kindness, brotherly love and altruism. The more clearly we see the benefits of these values, the more we will seek to reject anything that opposes them; in this way we will be able to bring about inner transformation.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Happiness, Buddhist

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• Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Home, Joy, Thank God

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• There can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from the home.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Home, Genuine

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Hands, Hand In Hand

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• I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to be wanting for my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. O man, place not thy confidence in this present world!

  Abd-ar-Rahman III

  Happiness, Peace, Men

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• In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Spiritual, Mean

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• Our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Impact, Others Happiness, Dimensions

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.

  Jack Kornfield

  Integrity, Care, Virtue

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• Genuine happiness is hard to miss.

  Melanie Iglesias

  Missing, Genuine, Hard

  "Melanie Iglesias: The Practice of Happiness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Exercise, Joy

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Concern For Others, Giving

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• While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Water, Dying

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• Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.
  
  English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Foundation, Cuisine, Good Food

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• In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves.

  Dalai Lama

  Worry Less, Concern For Others, Worry

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