True Happiness Quotes - Page 9

• We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

  Friedrich Koenig

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

  Og Mandino

  Smile, Being Happy, Giving

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• Do you think that every time you make a mistake, He is mad at you and won't talk to you...or that you must somehow make up for it?...Many Christians fail to experience real peace because they don't understand that they are righteous in Christ. Until people stop living according to the way they feel and stand on who they are in Christ, they will never find true happiness.

  Joyce Meyer

  Forgiveness, Christian, Real

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• A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving word, a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which create happiness in the present moment. By nourishing awareness in the present moment, you can avoid causing suffering to yourself and those around you. The way you look at others, your smile, and your small acts of caring can create happiness. True happiness does not depend on wealth or fame.

  Nhat Hanh

  Caring, Small Acts, Understanding

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha”, p.299, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

  David Hume

  Empathy, Apathy, Sullen

  David Hume (1870). “Essays, Literary, Moral, and Political”, p.88

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• True happiness comes only by making others happy—the practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In short, the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit, that makes our hearts glow in brotherly love and friendship and prompts us to kind deeds of service.

  David O. McKay

  Heart, Kind Deeds, Love And Friendship

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• Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

  Noah Levine

  Heart, Acceptance, Contentment

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• No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.

  Amish Tripathi

  Simple, Journey, Purpose

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• Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.

  Antonio Damasio

  Brain, Scott Fitzgerald, Consciousness

  "The quest to understand consciousness". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• It's true. Happiness is a big thing.

  Joel Parkinson

  Surfer, Bigs, Big Things

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• Happiness is a byproduct of helping others. No man ever finds happiness by thinking of himself. True happiness comes when we lose ourselves in the service of others – when we are merciful to our fellowmen.

  Royden G. Derrick

  Helping Others, Men, Thinking

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• So I tell you, my son, that the secret of true happiness is for him who asks nothing in return. The perfectly unselfish man is the one who finds his glory in God. Give what you have to give, and it will come back to you. All materials to build thy home in this world or the inner cosmic worlds come from within, from the God center in thy heart.

  Paul Twitchell

  Heart, Home, Son

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• True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

  Dada Vaswani

  Lying, Freedom And Happiness, Fulfillment

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• If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one’s existence, if one does not use the mind to it’s fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess. True happiness involves the pursuit of worthy goals. Without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.

  Dan Buettner

  Dream, Giving, Goal

  Dan Buettner (2010). “Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way”, p.16, National Geographic Books

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• If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Men, Would Be, Philosopher

  Sadhu Sundar Singh (2013). “At The Master's Feet”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness.

  S. N. Goenka

  Training, Mind, Enabling

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• Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein we each shape our own destiny, find fulfillment in daily activities, and come to understand our ultimate purpose in life.

  Josei Toda

  Destiny, Daily Activities, Enlightenment

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• True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Inspirational, Commitment, Goal

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• All right, let's get to work again!-This is the spirit of people of genuine substance. Those who avoid hard work or neglect the things they have to do, who just while away their time, eating, sleeping, playing, watching television-such individuals will never experience true happiness, satisfaction or joy.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Hard Work, Sleep, People

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• I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Thinking, Self, Long

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• True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.

  Thomas Merton

  Happiness And Love, Unselfish Love, Increase

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

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• It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting.

  Maria Luisa Bombal

  Happiness, Lying, Moving

  Arturo Torres-Rioseco, Félix Pita Rodríguez, Lino Novás Calvo, Horacio Quiroga, Francisco Ayala (1967). “Short stories of Latin America”

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• Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Anticipation, Reverence

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

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• If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

  Robertson Davies

  Happiness, Happy, Worry

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• True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strong, Mean, Trying

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