True Happiness Quotes - Page 12

• The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Facts

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• Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Happiness, Happy, Littles

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.102, Pushkin Press

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• True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

  Henry James

  Happiness, Self, Inner Peace

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

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• I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to my family and friends that I've known since junior high school. True happiness to me is the connection with fellow human beings I've known for a long time.

  Dat Phan

  Happiness, School, Long

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• Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Happiness, Taste, Life And Happiness

  "Editor's letter August 13" by Justine Picardie, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 27, 2013.

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• People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself

  Dalai Lama

  Collecting Things, People, Assuming

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• Let the children learn to see in nature an expression of the love and the wisdom of God; let the thought of Him be linked with bird and flower and tree; let all things seen become to them the interpreters of the unseen, and all the events of life be a means of divine teaching. As they learn thus to study the lessons in all created things and in all life's experiences, show that the same laws which govern the things of nature and the events of life are to control us, that they are given for our good, and that only in obedience to them can we find true happiness and success.

  Ellen G. White

  Children, Flower, Teaching

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• That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

  Albert Pike

  Wisdom, Heart, Ignorance

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• For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

  Gore Vidal

  Successful, Failing, Enough

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• I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

  Greg Jackson

  Hippie, Teaching, Helping Others

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• True happiness lies within you.

  Og Mandino

  Lying, Contentment Peace, Self Happiness

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• Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and 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

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight.

  Johanna Lindsey

  Fighting, Slips

  Johanna Lindsey (2010). “That Perfect Someone”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ.

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Compassionate Love, Christ

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• I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.

  Ernest Cline

  Real, Home, Oasis

  "Woodsy's World of Star Wars: My Q+A with Fanboys Screenwriter Ernest Cline!!". Interview with Laurel Woods, www.mtv.com. August 16, 2011.

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• If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Want, Way

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

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• True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, May, Rewards

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.56, Shambhala Publications

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• The desire for true happiness
  is nothing to feel ashamed about.

  Thanissaro Bhikkhu

  Desire, Ashamed, Feels

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• So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Ordinary

  "The Phil Donahue Show", www.youtube.com. 1979.

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• So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.

  Lin Yutang

  Work, People, Unhappy

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• Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Men, Forever

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

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• We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.

  Adam Pascal

  Atheist, Lying, Thinking

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• The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Achievement, Joy

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.161, Penguin

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• We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

  Seneca the Younger

  Appreciation, Inspirational Life, Adversity

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• True happiness isn't something that can be made. It isn't the result of anything. Happiness comes to those who understand that you can't seek it any more than you seek the air you breathe. It is a part of life to be found within living. ... All pursuit of happiness is based upon the false assumption that there is a way to possess it; you may as well try to grab a handful of breeze! Happiness is the natural expression of a stress-free life, just as sunlight naturally warms the Earth after dark clouds appear.

  Guy Finley

  Meaningful, Stress, Dark

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