Self Happiness Quotes

It's only when we are authentic to who we are that we are going to be truly happy. It's so important that we follow what our own heart is telling us, what our own intuition is telling us, what our passion is, where our heart wants to go. When we can truly explore who we are, that's when the world just explodes with possibilities. ~ Caroline A. Shearer

The highest happiness on earth exists in the donation of self for the betterment of others. ~ Debasish Mridha

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's so hard for women to be happy for one another, like genuinely happy. Once you find that, you know you've found true SELF happiness ~ Zendaya

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ~ Doug Larson

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

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. ~ Hugo Black

First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one's self. ~ Arthur Helps

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

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. ~ Millicent Fenwick

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

I am always happy, because whenever I am sad I just know that somewhere, somehow, there is a person who is PUSHING a door that says PULL. ~ Auliq Ice

We must live a genuine life in order to discover personal happiness and self-fulfillment. Understanding that a person is living a lie is the first step into realizing what is possible. No matter how frightful such a proposition is, we must dare to be an original self. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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

The process of discovering your greatest self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern and hinder it. ~ Steve Maraboli

Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be. ~ Brian Tracy

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ~ Leslie Caron

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self. ~ Goswami Kriyananda

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ~ Iris Murdoch

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

If love becomes too painful, then it's time to let that love go and save yourself. You have to keep this in mind because you'll be able to find another love but not another self. ~ Robert Tew

If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home. ~ Nathaniel Cotton

Keep your thoughts cleaner than pure water, as water drops make a river. ~ Lamees Alhassar

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before. ~ Brandi L. Bates

None of us deserves happiness, son. We are broken, sinful failures and not living the kind of life that would deserved to have joy. The good news is that, thanks to the grace of God, we often get more good things in life than we deserve. -- Aaron Robinson to Brian Van Pelt in Out of Agony. ~ Lynette Endcott

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered. ~ A. Edward Newton

There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it? Something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all people and what a wretched world it would be. ~ John Burroughs

Inner bliss is ultimate happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha

If we all talked to each other in this way, with warm camaraderie and complete non-judgement, much pain would be spared and happiness generated. ~ Sarah Krasnostein

There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wherever you are, be loving, caring, kind, and above all, be happy. ~ Debasish Mridha

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected.
"I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes - when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables - when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had - when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne ~ L.M. Montgomery

I think I'm dumb
or maybe just happy
think I'm just happy ... ~ Kurt Cobain

You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness. ~ Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

O my Charlotte, the sacred, tender remembrance! Gracious Heaven! restore to me the happy moment of our first acquaintance.
I smile at the suggestions of my heart, and obey its dictates.
their hearts do not beat in unison
I turned my face away. She should not act thus. She ought not to excite my imagination with such displays of heavenly innocence and happiness, nor awaken my heart from its slumbers, in which it dreams of the worthlessness of life! And why not? Because she knows how much I love her.
I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.
My dear friend, my energies are all prostrated: she can do with me what she pleases. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The mind is a garden of imagination;
thoughts are the plants of creation. ~ Debasish Mridha

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way. ~ Walter Savage Landor

The key to happiness is being happy with who you are and enjoying the life you are living. ~ Robert Moment

There will be no enemy if you try to kill him with the power of your love. ~ Debasish Mridha

During the night a fine, delicate summer rain had washed the plains, leaving the morning sky crisp and clean. The sun shone warm - soon to bake the earth dry. It cast a purple haze across the plain - like a great, dark topaz. In the trees the birds sang, while the squirrels jumped from branch to branch in seeming good will, belying the expected tension of the coming days. ~ Cate Campbell Beatty

It dishonors the deaths of our loved ones to shut out happiness. We throw away what we could have been and waste our opportunities. We each have a purpose, a destiny, and to realize it, we must reach beyond what we think we are capable of ... A wise woman once told me that I needed to learn the lesson of the lotus flower: All of our human experience, both the good and the bad, grounds us like the sludge in a river. We may be rooted in pain or suffering but our job is to rise above it, find the sun, and bloom. Only then can you brighten the world for others. ~ Colleen Houck

We were all put on this earth to be happy and we all deserve to be. Don't let anyone or anything steal your happiness in life! ~ Timothy Pina

If you can't trust others, nobody will be able to trust you. ~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is for those who can live in a warm climate. ~ Margaret Drabble

Happiness is gained by complying with the duties of whatever condition of life one is in, and you must constrain yourself to rise to that exalted station in which destiny has placed you. ~ Giacomo Casanova

Even in the saddest moments of life, the happiness of simply being, the joy of just having existence must be remembered strongly! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When question arise
Help or not to help
Always help. ~ Debasish Mridha

The best place to find God is not in the temple, but your heart, where kindness and love reside. ~ Debasish Mridha

I have nothing to do today but to smell the freshness of flowers and feel the joy of life. ~ Debasish Mridha

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

To be happy a woman had to think hard, during long silent hours, about how to make each small step forward. ~ Fatema Mernissi

The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman. ~ Eric Weiner

Happiness comes from within you. If your heart is happy, you can do anything you put your mind to do. Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges. So, to be happy, you not only have to work with all your heart. You have to work on your heart. You will glow from the inside out ~ Rita Zahara

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. ~ Gretchen Rubin

Whoever we are, we all have to fight our own battles for happiness. ~ Un-su Kim

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

It is not our job to be happy, to be in love. We exist to make happiness and love possible for others. ~ Lauren Kate

To die, he thought, was to escape passion's grasp, but that was the last thing he wanted. Instead he wished to be seized by passion and pinioned, held in its palm forever - he could not imagine any other existence as embracing any real happiness. ~ David Guterson