Finding Happiness Quotes

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. ~ Philip Green

I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho. ~ Douglas Coupland

Modern society has never been about finding contentment in the basics; modern society is founded on the principle that happiness lies in having more. We are bred to keep up with the Jones' because he who dies with the most toys wins. If I only work a little bit harder, a little bit longer, I'll be able to afford that boat and then I'll finally be happy. The illusive concept of finding happiness in things is the gerbil wheel that perpetually powers capitalism. I had hiked 2,283 miles and now my eyes were too wide opened to want to get on the wheel. But what was the alternative? Being homeless? ~ Erin Miller

Many of us place top priority not on becoming Christ like in the middle of our problems but on finding happiness ... I must firmly and consciously by an act of my will reject the goal of becoming happy and adopt the goal of becoming more like the Lord ... ~ Larry Crabb

How can I possibly find the right one, if the one that I have right now couldn't let me go? ~ Ressha

Happiness already exists in your life. All you need to do is tune into it. And you can start doing that right now. ~ Anthon St. Maarten

We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us - and this is remarkable - the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea. ~ Rich Mullins

I think it is hard to find happiness, as a whole, in anything. The days of tender youth are gone. I think you can be delirious in your youth, but as you get older, things happen. ~ Robert Hilburn

Wherever You Are, Be There
One of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being. ~ Jim Rohn

When I look down, I miss all the good stuff
And when I look up, I just trip over things ... ~ Ani DiFranco

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her, as Olive ann wrote in her notes for the novel, 'happiness means being first with somebody, having perfect, loving children ... The theme of Sanna is disillusionment,' Olive Ann wrote. 'Her life is the pursuit of happiness and perfection, but she finds happiness and perfection impossible to obtain-her idea of happiness is constant joy, no changes. ~ Olive Ann Burns

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits. ~ Anna Pavlova

Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things. ~ Debasish Mridha

Getting even with the person that broke your heart will never give you peace. The only thing that will heal your wounds is believing that God loves you enough to bring someone else into your life to respect you and love you in the way you deserve! ~ Shannon L. Alder

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it. ~ Hugh Laurie

I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today. ~ Og Mandino

Advice for a human.
81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being.
82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing. ~ Matt Haig

I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. ~ Dalai Lama

You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you ... happiness is your natural state. ~ Russell Simmons

Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find. ~ Frederick Lenz

Find happiness in making others happy. ~ Mary MacKillop

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure. ~ Francoise Bertaut De Motteville

Find happiness in tribulation, too. Find it in joy alone and you could lose it, sooner or later, and be left with nothing. ~ Siddharth Katragadda

The problem is that contemporary people think life is all about finding happiness. We decide what conditions will make us happy and then we work to bring those conditions about. To live for happiness means that you are trying to get something out of life. But when suffering comes along, it takes the conditions for happiness away, and so suffering destroys all your reason to keep living. But to "live for meaning" means not that you try to get something out of life but rather that life expects something from us. In other words, you have meaning only when there is something in life more important than your own personal freedom and happiness, something for which you are glad to sacrifice your happiness.129 ~ Timothy Keller

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change. ~ Thomas A Kempis

And even though he's the father of capitalism and wrote the most famous and maybe the best book ever on why some nations are rich and others are poor, Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments wrote as eloquently as anyone ever has on the futility of pursuing money with the hope of finding happiness. How do you reconcile that with the fact that no one did more than Adam Smith to make capitalism and self-interest respectable? That is a puzzle I try to unravel toward the end of this book. Besides the emptiness of excessive materialism, Smith understood the potential we have for self-deception, the danger of unintended consequences, the seductive lure of fame and power, the limitations of human reason, and the unseen sources of what makes our lives both so complex and yet at times so orderly. The Theory of Moral Sentiments is a book of observations about what makes us tick. As a bonus, almost in passing, Smith tells us how to lead the good life in the fullest sense of that phrase. ~ Russ Roberts

Current wisdom dictates a heroine in search of happiness should ditch the prince, skip the diet--and gain acceptance. Stop changing ourself to please the world and start finding happiness within. ~ Sarah Hepola

I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining yourself by what other people think of you, it's a form of self-torture. ~ Sarah Silverman

One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness. ~ Robert Breault

The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about. ~ Shannon L. Alder

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. ~ Robert Breault

Only God satisfies. ONLY GOD SATISFIES. Let this truism settle down deep inside your heart. It is the unveiled truth. Feed this truth to your spirit. Force it down and command it to chase down, repel, and extricate all lies the Devil has successfully planted inside your spirit. Will it to sleigh your flesh. Forget about finding happiness and fulfillment in your spouse, friend, or child. Fulfillment comes only when you are totally invested in your relationship with God. When you are facing a trial or walking through a storm, it is God who will comfort and satisfy your soul with boundless and extraordinary love and guidance. Within God's love there is an all-embracing grace. ~ Cheryl Zelenka

You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do. ~ Zoe Saldana

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous! ~ Nelson Rodrigues

Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding. ~ Marion Milner

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I think it's our job to be happy and find happiness for ourselves. ~ Guy Branum

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it? ~ Oliver Goldsmith

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. ~ William Wordsworth

Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change. ~ Atul Purohit

We're just trying to find happiness in the bodies and minds we were given, like everyone else. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

Life is not always about happy endings. Sometimes it's about finding happiness in the ending you get. ~ Chip Rossetti

Oh and finding happiness in the small things, my dear, that's really nothing to brag about - it's the last consolation of those whose imaginations have failed them. ~ Olga Grushin

I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us. ~ Natascha McElhone

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. ~ Lauren Oliver

'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with. ~ Kacy Hill

Absolute devotion to God leads to absolute joy! ~ Leila Grandemange

Happiness is not a destination. It is a way of life. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy. ~ Dalai Lama

Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above. We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love. ~ Ozzy Osbourne

Tragedy may hit all of us in one way or another, but fate's not our enemy, Brooke. We are. By locking yourself away from the world, you choose your own mistakes and destroy any chance of ever finding happiness. You cannot control life, but you can chose who you are and what you make of it. ~ J.C. Reed

Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom. ~ Democritus

Since I grew weary of the search
I taught myself to find instead
Since cross winds caused my ship to lurch
I sail with all winds straight ahead. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That's false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved. ~ Anthony De Mello

We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads. ~ Vlade Divac

One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter. ~ Gautama Buddha

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others. ~ Gautama Buddha

Happiness is odd
Found in mysterious places
Where you least expect it
Like a glowing penny on the floor
Not everyone can find it
And sometimes you lose it

Some find it in small things
Others see it in large things
If you cling to it
You'll make it through
Because
Happiness is odd ~ Aleena Sebastian

Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop. ~ Zhuangzi

He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death. ~ Gautama Buddha

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ~ C.P. Snow

You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it. ~ Willie Nelson

Cold November nights. It feels as if summer never happened. The beauty of setting sun, moon, and stars. Sailing to nowhere, but finding happiness in our togetherness. Never forget what we are. Stranded hearts." Fidelis O. Mkparu (2016), author of 'Love's Affliction' (and soon to be published 'Tears before Exaltation') ~ Fidelis O. Mkparu

Find happiness by enjoying the journey, not by awaiting the destination. ~ Peter Sheppard Skaerved

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them. ~ Meryl Davis

You can search high & low to find happiness on earth, yet unless you love yourself, you will never find your true belonging. ~ Leon Brown

Success can bring you happiness, finding happiness is success ~ Benny Bellamacina

If you are never the cause of someone's sadness, you will never have difficulties finding happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Being strong means allowing yourself to cry over the things you can't change; laugh when things are funny; smile when you're happy. It means understanding where your breaking point is, and yet, going further and still remaining whole. Strong people push themselves to the limits of pain and joy. They fall to their knees in agony, then they lift up their faces to find the beautiful morning rays shining down on them, and they rise to their feet. Being strong means never giving up, no matter how crushed you are, and finding happiness in the smallest parts of life. ~ D. Nichole King

Among our people we have the recognition, the sudden knowledge that a mate is before you. Not all our people know this certainty, and to them falls the difficult task of slowly building a bond with another who has also not known the recognition. With Calis and Elien, it is the difficult way. But often it ends in a love as profound as the first. ~ Raymond E. Feist

I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don't believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them. ~ Francine Rivers

Here's the thing: You can be materialistic and poor. You can also be content and rich. It has nothing to do with your income and it has everything to do with your heart. You don't need to earn more money in order to be generous with your money. Some people use that as an excuse to be greedy. Jesus seemed to believe that the key to generosity wasn't having more, but being content with what you already have. ~ Cole Ryan

The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pu ~ Robert A. Heinlein

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you. ~ Ernie J Zelinski

If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving. ~ Dale Carnegie

We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul. ~ Charles Spurgeon

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. ~ Mother Teresa

One of the central tenets of the Western worldview is that one should always be engaged in some kind of outward task. Thus, the Westerner structures his time - including, sometimes, even his leisure time - as a series of discrete programmed activities which he must submit to in order to tick off from an actual or virtual list. One need only observe the expression on his face as he ploughs through yet another family outing, cultural event, or gruelling exercise routine to realise that his aim in life is not so much to live in the present moment as it is to work down a never-ending list. If one asks him how he is doing, he is most likely to respond with an artificial smile, and something along the lines of, 'Fine, thank you – very busy of course!' In many cases, he is not fine at all, but confused, exhausted, and fundamentally unhappy. In contrast, most people living in a country such as Kenya in Africa do not share in the Western worldview that it is noble or worthwhile to spend all of one's time rushing around from one task to the next. When Westerners go to Kenya and do as they are wont to do, they are met with peels of laughter and cries of 'mzungu', which is Swahili for 'Westerner'. The literal translation of 'mzungu' is 'one who moves around', 'to go round and round', or 'to turn around in circles'. ~ Neel Burton

Wherever you love everything around you, forgive the past, show the gratitude, feel the joy of life, because you are a miracle still alive. ~ Debasish Mridha

He turned to Edwin. "You know, the stuff you just told me makes more sense than all the weird things the counselors and psychologist have told me in school and at the detention center."
Edwin tapped Cole's shoulder with the broken stick. "That's because those people still think you can get rid of the left end of the stick. ~ Ben Mikaelsen

There are so many women throughout the world who appreciate beautiful design and have the budget to buy designer fashion but sometimes have a hard time finding the things that they really want or that suit their lifestyle or their culture or whatever it may be. ~ Aslaug Magnusdottir

Rich people are fascinated by happiness," she said. "It's something they find maddening. ~ Frances Cha

I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content. ~ Stephen Shore

Say thank you! I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.' You're saying thank you because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds. You're saying thank you because you know there's no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say thank you! ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence. ~ Jhonen Vasquez

O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The thing that our system is designed to do is keep us alone and isolated in our little consumer bubble. And the most revolutionary act of all might be finding a community of like-minded people where you can talk about these issues and figure out what to do together. ~ Avi Lewis

What shocked us the most was that we had no idea why we should be so shocked. Like opening a ginger ale and finding Jamesons' inside: nothing wrong with it, but it sort of takes you by surprise. ~ Spider Robinson

Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~ Cyrus The Great

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. ~ Henrik Ibsen

Claiming to love self, but willingly default to cheating at the first sign of trouble is nothing short of playing yourself. Your ego may feel avenged - temporarily - but your heart and soul, the true self, will suffer the long term affects of karma's justifiable sting. ~ T.F. Hodge

He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding to your surprise that the light at the end didn't matter; sometimes in fact the tunnel made the light tolerable. ~ Colum McCann

May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy. ~ Gautama Buddha

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Time is the bridge between life and death.
Truth is the bridge between illusion and reality.
Trust is the bridge between confidence and fear.
Conviction is the bridge between doubt and belief.
Certainty is the bridge between hesitation and assurance.
Knowledge is the bridge between facts and reason.
Wisdom is the bridge between intelligence and spirituality.
Integrity is the bridge between character and reputation.
Emotion is the bridge between contentment and desire.
Joy is the bridge between happiness and excitement.
Desire is the bridge between need and want.
Urgency is the bridge between action and indecision.
Consequence is the bridge between deed and outcome.
Freewill is the bridge between fate and chance.
Light is the bridge between humanity and divinity.
Infinity is the bridge between nothing and everything.
Peace is the bridge between war and reconciliation.
Purgatory is the bridge between Heaven and Earth.
God is the bridge between faith and science. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past. ~ Leo Tolstoy