Personal Happiness Quotes - Page 3

• The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.

  C. S. Lewis

  Falling In Love, Wall, Events

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even my husband is happier when I'm happy. He has always said, "You figure out what you want to do," because he's discovered that personal happiness is connected to everything.

  Michelle Obama

  Husband, Want, Figures

  "Michelle Obama's Rules for Staying Healthy and Happy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.prevention.com. November 3, 2011.

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• Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Running, Destiny, Difficult Choices

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• If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might be able to gain temporary benefits, but in the long run we will not succeed in achieving even our personal happiness, and hope for the next life is out of the question.

  Dalai Lama

  Running, Self, Long

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• The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

  Anton Chekhov

  Soul, Desire, Charity

  "Note-Book of Anton Chekhov". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1921.

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• So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.

  Sigmund Freud

  Two, Humanity, Unity

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.67, Courier Dover Publications

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• True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.

  John Ortberg

  True Joy, People, Ordinary

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.73, Harper Collins

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• Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness

  Gretchen Rubin

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Boost

  Gretchen Rubin (2012). “Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life”, p.213, Harmony

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• Personal happiness is so important, most choose to let someone else take care of it.

  Terry Rossio

  Important, Care, Take Care

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• Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Forget, Wealth

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1865, Manonmani Publishers

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• Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Knowing, Acquisition

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• Complaining becomes a habit. Focusing on the negative also becomes a habit. It’s one of the most detrimental habits you can possibly have. It can negatively impact you socially, affecting your personal happiness, but it can also subconsciously sabotage your money and success.

  T. Harv Eker

  Impact, Negative, Complaining

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 02, 2013

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• My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

  Gail Porter

  Thinking, Important, Mum

  "Gail Porter: My family values". Interview with Jo Mears, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

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• This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise past a certain earnings threshold.

  Fernando Rodes Vila

  Business, Past, Understanding

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• To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict. It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one's personal happiness.

  Watchman Nee

  Spiritual, Prayer, Suffering

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.421, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.

  David Foster

  Team, Boys, Ideas

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• Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  War, Action, Truck

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• If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

  Anton Chekhov

  Purpose, Aim, Wiser

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• The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Hands, Quality, Meaning Of Life

  Robert A. Johnson (1989). “He: Understanding Masculine Psychology”, Harpercollins

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• The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

  Rob Brydon

  Thinking, Careers, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Is success just about winning? Acclaim? Trophies? Wealth? Our personal happiness or satisfaction? I have been blessed to experience some of these over the years, and I can answer without batting an eye: No. Accomplishments, applause, awards and fortune are rewards that often come as the result of hard work and a determined spirit, but there is something bigger. Something better. Something that will outlast the winningest season, the plushest corner office, the heftiest bonus and the loudest cheers. That something can only be found when we look beyond the final score.

  Tom Osborne

  Cheer, Blessed, Hard Work

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• Success is measured by personal happiness.

  Usher

  Success Is Measured By, Success Is Measured

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• Hitler always styled himself as a man who renounced all personal happiness in the service of his people. There is no conclusive evidence of this, but I believe that behind the smokescreen of discretion, Hitler had a very normal love life with Eva Braun.

  Volker Ullrich

  Believe, Love Life, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The religious heritage sort of suggests implicitly and explicitly that you pay your dues and you get your reward later on, that's a little inconsistent with the notion of personal, happiness. I am a strong believer in a set of values that are rooted in the notion of happiness and personal fulfillment.

  Hugh Hefner

  Religious, Strong, Heritage

  "Interview with Hugh Hefner". nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against it: the rest will be given you without effort.

  Tito Colliander

  Giving, Effort, Soul

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.23, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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