Searching For Happiness Quotes - Page 2

• Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.95, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.

  Pema Chodron

  Findings

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.120, Shambhala Publications

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• I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

  Frank McCourt

  Happiness, Believe, Too Much

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• The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Happiness, Fall, Ends

  D. H. Lawrence, Dieter Mehl (2002). “The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

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• Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, People

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• Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Names

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• More young people are volunteering than ever before. More people are including service to others on their busy lives' to do list. The promise of America is embedded deep in our DNA, calling us to a much less shallow search for happiness and meaning.

  Arianna Huffington

  Dna, America, People

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The more you strive and search for happiness, the more you overlook the possibility that it is here already.

  Robert Holden

  Strive, Possibility

  Robert Holden (2009). “Be Happy: Release the Power of Happiness in You”, p.17, Hay House, Inc

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• One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Romantic, Marriage

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• Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms?

  Robert Muller

  Happiness, Spiritual, Riches

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• Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.

  Hedi Slimane

  Sex, Romance, Sometimes

  "Hedi Slimane Interview: 'California Song' at MOCA Los Angeles". Interview with Isabel Wilkinson, www.thedailybeast.com. January 20, 2012.

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• Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Happiness, Freedom, Meditation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2001). “Freedom, Love, and Action”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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• We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Happiness, Practice, Car

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.196, Vintage

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• If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in all its ardour and paradoxes - than our travels.

  Alain de Botton

  Happiness, Quests, Dynamics

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• The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Lasts

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• All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Long, Unhappy, Guarantees

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• The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Giving

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• The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Pain, Inspiration

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• This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync with God is about obedience. Any other pursuit will get in the way.

  Franklin Graham

  God, Christian, Jesus

  Franklin Graham (1998). “Living beyond the limits : a life in sync with God”

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• Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.
  Paulo Coelho Quotes From Like the Flowing River
  “Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

  Paulo Coelho

  Flames, Rivers, People

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• The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Self, Roots, Addiction

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

  Bob Marley

  Money, Numbers, Ends

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• They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Those who continually search for happiness will never find it. Happiness is made, not found. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Want, Would Be, Made

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• Meditation puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness - a more refined version of the problem you already have.

  Sam Harris

  Sight, Meditation, Problem

  "Taming the Mind". Interview with with Dan Harris, samharris.org. September 17, 2014.

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• A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person who has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule.

  Scott Adams

  Average, Investing, Schedules

  "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big". Book by Scott Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2013.

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