True Happiness Quotes - Page 11

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

  Dada Vaswani

  Lying, Freedom And Happiness, Fulfillment

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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's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

  Adrian Grenier

  Selfish, Indulge In, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

  Marquis de Sade

  Lying, Virtue, Senses

  "The 120 days of Sodom and other writings".

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• The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

  Francoise Bertaut de Motteville

  Happiness, Peace, Work

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• If you are searching for your purpose in life then you're never going to be satisfied. This life will never satisfy you. You'll never be happy and you'll never be content. The only really contentment or true happiness is with Christ.

  Mark Teixeira

  Contentment, Purpose, Christ

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It's good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. It inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways - with money or with different things that are not true happiness. It's leading people down a rabbit hole that actually doesn't exist. So people think like, "Yo, once I get this money and these cars and stuff, I'ma be so happy." But that's not true. And I feel like that's why it's very important to educate people on different things while you are actually on social media.

  Jaden Smith

  Thinking, Media, Car

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

  Linus Pauling

  Life, Happiness, Wise

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• True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems,but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice, and to learn.

  Richard Carlson

  Motivational, Opportunity, Practice

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• [Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and affections are blending in a beautiful proportion, and sustain and perfect one another. It is more than the silence after storms. It is as the concord of all melodious sounds ... an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and happy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe.... This is peace, and the true happiness of [humanity].

  William Ellery Channing

  Beautiful, Perfect One, Silence

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• The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.

  John Locke

  Happiness, Liberty, Foundation

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• I want to live the way I choose. It's all about happiness. I'm a happy person. But to find true happiness, peace within yourself and the world, that is something achieved in the moment. No matter the circumstance.

  Brett Dennen

  World, Want, Matter

  Source: renownedforsound.com

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• Through embracing the diversity of humans beings, we will find a sure way to true happiness.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Diversity, Way, Humans

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• True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

  Aristotle

  Self, Fleeting, Growing

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• True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company.

  Sophia Loren

  Laughter, Children, Soul

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• This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Horse, Stars, Heart

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

  David Lynch

  Lying, Meditation, Reason

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