Lasting Happiness Quotes

• The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

  Hugo Black

  Self, Purpose, Firsts

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  If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

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• The key to lasting happiness is to stop looking for it, and to know that you already have it.

  Deepak Chopra

  Keys, Being Positive, Knows

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “Power, Freedom, and Grace: Living from the Source of Lasting Happiness”, p.66, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

  Hugh Black

  Kindness, Thoughtful, Missing

  Hugh Black (1901). “Culture and Restraint”

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• Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life's purpose.

  Robin Sharma

  Motivational, Accomplish Your Goals, Purpose

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.63, Jaico Publishing House

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• When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Great Love, Wish

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• Things which provide deep and lasting happiness and gratitude are the things which money cannot buy: our families, the gospel, good friends, our health, our abilities, the love we receive from those around us.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Gratitude, Good Friend, Ability

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• A woman must marry the man who loves her but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.

  Mariama Bâ

  Love, Dream, Men

  "So Long a Letter".

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• If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Happiness, Live Life, Race

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• Lasting happiness starts with one question...what can I celebrate?

  Michael Beckwith

  Celebrate, Lasting

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• To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and go beyond the mind. By turning the mind's concentration inward, upon the self, we can deepen that experience of perfect concentration. This is the state of Meditation.

  Sivananda

  Self, Perfect, Meditation

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• Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.

  Tal Ben-Shahar

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  Tal Ben-Shahar (2002). “The Question of Happiness: On Finding Meaning, Pleasure, and the Ultimate Currency”, p.15, iUniverse

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• If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Happiness, Ignorance, Men

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• The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

  Vincent Nichols

  Profound, Gains, Fruit

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• Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed always escalate into a vicious spiral, as we seek greater and greater gratification but find less and less contentment. . . . Striving to acquire the things of the world not only does not bring lasting happiness and peace, but it drives us to seek more. When "all we've ever wanted" is grounded in the temporal trappings of this world, it is never enough!

  Brent L. Top

  Envy, Greed, Contentment

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• I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

  Dalai Lama

  Caring, Understanding, Heartfelt

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• When we understand the best way to achieve all our goals is to assist others in achieving their goals, we will find the key to lasting happiness.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Keys, Goal, Way

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• Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Compassion, Joy

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• There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.

  Chris Prentiss

  Way, Achieve, Lasting

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.8, BookBaby

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• Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people will do well to reevaluate, to renew their courting, to express their affection, to acknowledge kindness, and to increase their consideration so their marriage again can become beautiful, sweet, and growing. While marriage is difficult, and discordant and frustrated marriages are common, yet real, lasting happiness is possible, and marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Beautiful, Sweet, Couple

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• Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

  Allan Lokos

  Meditation, Feel Good, Inner Peace

  Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.144, Penguin

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• Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.

  Chris Heimerdinger

  Endurance, Lasting, Offspring

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• Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?

  Amin Maalouf

  Believe, Generations, Arrogant

  Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.342, Macmillan

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• It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. As a matter of experience, we find that true happiness comes in seeking other things, in the manifold activities of life, in the healthful outgoing of all human powers.

  Hugh Black

  Happiness, Self, Missing

  Hugh Black (1901). “Culture and Restraint”

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• There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive.

  Hannah Arendt

  Boredom, Balance, Alive

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

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