True Happiness Quotes - Page 8

• To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.

  George Washington Carver

  Doors, Secret, Littles

  "George Washington Carver in his own words".

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• To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.

  Tori Amos

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• Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Gratitude, Strong

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist; Or, the Parish Boy's Progress”, p.364

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• Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Identity, Who We Are, Impossible

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• True happiness springs from moderation.
  [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spring, Moderation

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• To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Nice, White

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• When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.

  Blaise Pascal

  Self, Soul, Austerity

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.133

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• Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

  Shakti Gawain

  Happy, Pursuit Of Happiness, Careers

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• True happiness springs from moderation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spring, Moderation

  "Die Naturliche Tochter". II. 5. 79, 1803.

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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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• There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, Men, Trying

  Pensees no. 181 (1658). Popularly paraphrased as "There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart."

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• The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

  Tom Shadyac

  Mean, Thinking, Feelings

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• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

  Denis Waitley

  Happy, Gratitude, Grateful

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• If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of life. Happiness cannot come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done. To do that duty you need to have more than one trait. From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Joy, Soul

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• True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, its our own true nature.

  Tara Brach

  Home, Giving, And Love

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• Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Teacher, Character, Challenges

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• for true happiness, sane enjoyment, you must look to the country, not town. Only you want one true heart beside you with which to enjoy it!

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews

  Country, Heart, Looks

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• The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Ideas, Mind

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• The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, Knowing Who You Are, Identity

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• You can give a great and wonderful Christmas if you remember the gifts God has given you and, as best you can, offer them to others as He would. That is the spirit of Christmas and of true happiness every day.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Giving, Spirit, Remember

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• Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Real, Challenges, Mind

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• It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.

  Epicurus

  Men, Chance, Belief

  "Dancing into old age" by Daniel Klein, www.cnn.com. March 16, 2013.

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• Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

  William Cowper

  Life, Happiness, Littles

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• True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society.

  Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

  Commitment, Community, Promise

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• Good food is the basis of true happiness

  Auguste Escoffier

  Good Food, Bases

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