True Happiness Quotes - Page 7

• Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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• Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Children, Feelings, Needs

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Aug 04, 2015

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• As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Death, Opportunity, Keys

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• True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Yoga, Expression, Activity

  Twitter post from Jun 09, 2016

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• True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Compassion, Greed

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• True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Richness

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• Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Real, Men, Body

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.

  George Lois

  Creative, Joy, After Hours

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• When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Happy, Mind, Contentment

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2003). “The New Meditation Handbook: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful”, p.12, Tharpa Publications UK

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• True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

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• The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

  Olivia Goldsmith

  Happiness, Expectations, Secret

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• If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

  A. Edward Newton

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.

  Robert Holden

  Happiness, Nature, Real

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• There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

  William Halsey

  Military, Men, History

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• A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

  Roberto Burle Marx

  Garden, Artist, Color

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• To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.

  Tori Amos

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• Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a true happiness, indeed the supreme happiness; but it is founded upon sorrow.

  Josef Pieper

  Evil, Historical, Sorrow

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• The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.

  George Saunders

  Couple, Years, Numbers

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• To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.

  George Washington Carver

  Doors, Secret, Littles

  "George Washington Carver in his own words".

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• Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.

  William L. Shirer

  Soul, Mind, Disposition

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• True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

  Saint Augustine

  Thinking, True Joy, Looks

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• It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Happy, Style, Secret

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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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• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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• True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

  Socrates

  Family, Wisdom, Witty

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