Seeking Happiness Quotes

• There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Happiness, Beauty, Way

  Charles Baudelaire (1964). “Baudelaire as a literary critic”, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

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• I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health". "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health", Vol. LXXXV, p. 170, September, 1887.

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• Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Self Control, World

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.65, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Happiness, Happy, Mean

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  Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 02, 2015

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• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

  James Oppenheim

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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• I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

  Goldie Hawn

  Happiness, Believe, People

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• I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living".

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  I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.

  Laozi

  Happiness, Taoism, Fearful

  Laozi (1919). “Laotzu's Tao and Wu Wei”

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• The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Spiritual, Purpose

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.28, Penguin

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• Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

  Pope Francis

  Unhappy, Way, Materials

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• Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Opposites, Traveler

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• Seeking happiness apart from a right relationship God is like trying to turn on a light that's unplugged.

  Randy Alcorn

  Light, Trying, Turns

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• Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept.

  H. G. Wells

  Noble, Trustworthy, Form

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.10933, Delphi Classics

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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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• Some of us are seeking happiness where it is and as a result are becoming happier. And others are seeking it blindly in the world where it is not and are becoming more frustrated.

  Lester Levenson

  Frustrated, Becoming, World

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• Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Causes, Emotion

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• One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

  Gautama Buddha

  Vegetarianism, Desire, Finding Happiness

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• So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Negative, Firsts

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.43, Penguin

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• All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier, no more fullfilled, for all my achievements. Finally I saw through the clouds I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life i had been busy seeking happiness, but never finding it or sustaining it.

  Dan Millman

  Clouds, Years, Enjoy Life

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• We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life.

  Joko Beck

  Happiness, Joy, Brain

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• You know that saying 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? That's so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Art, Pursuit Of Happiness, Psychology

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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