True Happiness Quotes - Page 9

• Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Happiness, Happy, Wise

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• I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

  Harlan Coben

  Children, Stress, Trying

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• As Latter-day Saints we must ever be vigilant. The way for each person and each family to guard against the slings and arrows of the Adversary and to prepare for the great day of the Lord is to hold fast to the iron rod, to exercise greater faith, to repent of our sins and shortcomings, and to be anxiously engaged in the work of His kingdom on earth, which is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Herein lies the only true happiness for all our Father's children.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Jesus, Children, Lying

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• Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can't get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you're in for the ride of your life.

  Albert Brooks

  Life, Happiness, Fear

  "Fictional character: Bob Diamond". "Defending Your Life", www.imdb.com. March 22, 1991.

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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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• A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Purpose, Significance

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• When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true happiness. The happiness of these ordinary people seems to consist in slavishly imitating the majority, as if this were their only choice. And yet they all believe they are happy. I cannot decide whether that is happiness or not. Is there such a thing as happiness?

  Zhuangzi

  Happiness, Believe, People

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• Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Care, Virtue

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.193

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• There is a new survey out about the happiest professions. I think the whole premise is flawed. You're supposed to find true happiness outside of work. From friends, family, and YouTube videos of old people falling down.

  Craig Ferguson

  Happiness, Fall, Thinking

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• The journey to true happiness and to happiness now is not a journey of physical distance or time; it is one of personal "self-recovery," where we remember and reconnect consciously to an inner potential for joy--a paradise lost--waiting to be found.

  Robert Holden

  Distance, Recovery, Journey

  Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.7, Hay House, Inc

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• If laying aside all worldly Greatness and Vain-Glory, I should be ask'd where I thought it was most probable that Men might enjoy true Happiness, I would prefer a small peaceable Society, in which Men, neither envy'd nor esteem'd by Neighbours, should be contented to live upon the Natural Product of the Spot they inhabit, to a vast Multitude abounding in Wealth and Power, that should always be conquering others by their Arms Abroad, and debauching themselves by Foreign Luxury at Home.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Home, Greatness, Men

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.4, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job. What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.

  Jeffree Star

  Jobs, Mean, Cutting

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• God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness.

  George Muller

  People

  George Muller (1996). “The Autobiography of George Muller”, p.10, Whitaker House

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• True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Flow, Virtue

  Aristotle (2012). “Politics”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• So what is happiness? I am sure this question will be asked through the ages. And I doubt there is one answer for all people. Like heaven and hell, one person's happiness can be another person's unhappiness, which is why I'm not attempting to tell you what to do to find your happiness. I have enough trouble finding and hanging onto my own true happiness.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Happiness, People, Heaven

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• True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.

  Pliny the Elder

  Happiness, Deserving

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• People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Happy, Summer

  'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

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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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• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

  F. H. Bradley

  Happiness, Secret, Admiration

  Aphorisms (1930) no. 33

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• True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.

  Dan Buettner

  Being Happy, Dream, Goal

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

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• True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Happiness, Letting Go, Unnecessary

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Oct 20, 2012

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• All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.

  Arnold Lobel

  Moments, Miles, Hard

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• I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Views, Matter, Satisfaction

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• True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within.

  David Lynch

  Lying, Transcendental Meditation

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. January 23, 2007.

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• Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

  Hermann Hesse

  Happiness, Being Happy, You Make Me Happy

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