Top 100 Happiness Comes Quotes
#1. Real happiness comes from the cultivation, the development, of the highest that is in us.
Orison Swett Marden
#2. Happiness comes not by passive waiting, but by active participation.
Suzanne Eller
#3. Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.
Frederick Lenz
#4. Happiness comes in many forms. Whether through a passion for something or someone, it makes no difference. The results are the same: you live.
Megan Duke
#5. Money won't ever make you happy, nor was it ever meant to. Happiness comes from within. Money at best will make you more comfortable.
James Arthur Ray
#6. Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.
Yongey Mingyur
#7. Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
William James
#8. I'm not defined by someone I thought I was dating, Luke, or what I do for a living. I'm not defined by what people think of me. My happiness comes from within, and I -
Jill Shalvis
#9. 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.
#10. Happiness comes from the dissolution of the mind, not from external objects. Through meditation we can achieve everything including bliss, health, strength, intelligence and vitality. But it should be practiced properly in solitude and with care.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#11. When a chance for real happiness comes by, grab it with both hands and devour it. If it lasts five minutes or five lifetimes, it's still worth it.
Malorie Blackman
#12. Happiness must be a jealous pet. When you try seeking yours out, it tends to keep hidden. But as soon as you turn to help a friend find his, your own happiness comes bounding out of the darkness like some crazed animal.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#13. I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money.
Muhammad Yunus
#14. I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.
Cary Fukunaga
#15. Happiness comes from striving to make tomorrow better than today and being at peace when yesterday was better than today as well.
Dan Pearce
#16. Real happiness comes from the things that can not be taken away from you.
John Wooden
#17. True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#18. Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.
Benjamin Franklin
#19. Happiness comes in snatches, and I take every one.
Marata Eros
#20. Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.
Zoroaster
#21. Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
Andrew Weil
#22. 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
#24. Happiness comes when your words are of benefit to yourself and others.
Gautama Buddha
#25. My happiness comes from the donation of my life in many ways for the current and for the future generations.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Authentic happiness comes from being in conscious connection with our inner being rather than dependency on outer things and circumstances which are constantly in a state of flux.
Michael Beckwith
#27. happiness comes from doing great things-rather than getting great things
Charles Fay
#28. Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.
Francois Lelord
#29. Happiness comes from holiness. You can't truly be happy unless you're hungry for Jesus Christ.
David Jeremiah
#30. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
John Mason Brown
#31. WE can learn to rejoice in even the smallest blessings our life holds. It is easy to miss our own good fortune; often happiness comes in ways we don't even notice.
Pema Chodron
#32. Happiness is the DNA of pleasure. My point is simply this: Pleasure comes from something on the outside. Happiness comes from within. It's a state you create by choice. It's a decision. It's an act of will.
Robin Sharma
#33. Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
William L. Shirer
#34. I'm not defined by what people think of me. My happiness comes from within.
Jill Shalvis
#35. But with knowledge comes confidence. And with happiness comes creativity.
Karina Halle
#36. Happiness comes from within. Stuff only clutters up the place.
Judi Fennell
#37. When one grows older one learns that happiness - complete and unadulterated happiness - comes only in moments, and must be recognized and savored to the full, for even in the happiest life, the complete joy is not always present.
Victoria Holt
#38. The boy with no direction taught me something unforgettable: happiness comes again if you let it.
Adam Silvera
#39. Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.
Ezra Taft Benson
#41. We need so little to be happy. Happiness does not come from things. Happiness comes from living a full and exciting life.
Ken Ilgunas
#42. My happiness comes from doing all I can for my students. To help them, what else could there be?
Frederick Lenz
#43. I actually hate Christmas," says Eileen. "Everybody has this idea you have to have a good time, like happiness comes in a ruddy packet." Her face is flushed with heat. "One time, I stayed in bed all day. That was one of my best Christmases.
Rachel Joyce
#44. Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
Nhat Hanh
#45. When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself
nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#46. Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't see what this moment is. You won't realize its beauty.
Frederick Lenz
#47. I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.
Barbara Ann Kipfer
#48. I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.
Peter MacKay
#49. 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
#50. Happiness comes from what you love to do, not necessarily from what you need to do; to succeed!
Amit Chatterjee
#51. Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.
Brian L. Weiss
#52. Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#53. Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
Marina Abramovic
#54. Real happiness comes from loving you're inner self and excepting the things you can't change. Flaws perfectly imperfect.
Shellie Palmer
#55. Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#56. The awareness of happiness comes after, in memory, with the belated appreciation of the moment.
Anne Rice
#57. I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
Agnes Martin
#58. Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
John Stossel
#59. Happiness comes through good judgment, good judgment comes through experience and experience comes through bad judgment
Robin S. Sharma
#60. Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo Rosten
#61. Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth ... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
John Templeton
#62. I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.
Adrian Grenier
#63. In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.
Marla Gibbs
#64. 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
#65. I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#66. My happiness comes from the kindness of those around me.
Natsuki Takaya
#67. Happiness comes from moving toward something. When you run away, ofttimes you bring your misery with you.
Michael J. Sullivan
#68. HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#69. She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.
Dorothy Koomson
#70. Stable happiness doesn't come from getting everything we want, because we never will; true happiness comes from wanting whatever we get.
Dan Millman
#71. True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.
Dalai Lama
#72. I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.
Tony Robbins
#73. The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
Candace Bushnell
#74. Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life's purpose.
Robin Sharma
#75. Genuine happiness comes from focusing on the happiness of others.
Dalai Lama
#76. Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
Barry Sanders
#77. Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with people and projects beyond ourselves. Happiness comes from getting these connections right.
Jonathan Haidt
#78. True happiness comes from within. When we stop looking for social proof and trust in ourselves, a certain magic happens. You are the most important person in your life, and, we are one.
Tony Williams
#79. Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.
Dennis Lehane
#80. 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
#81. True happiness comes from helping others who are less fortunate than you. It comes from doing the right thing. Nothing else works.
Andrew Peterson
#83. All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy.
Shantideva
#85. Coming true is not the only purpose of a dream. Its most important purpose is to get us in touch with where dreams come from, where passion comes from, where happiness comes from. Even a shattered dream can do that for you.
Lisa Bu
#86. Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.
Earl Nightingale
#87. Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.
Sharon Stone
#88. Happiness comes from physical activity; sorrow from thought.
Marty Rubin
#89. Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You come, you smoke the butt you eat the cookie you go to sleep wake up and go back to fucking work the next morning, THAT'S IT! End of fucking list!
Denis Leary
#90. Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion.
Allan Lokos
#91. Seek happiness now within you. Don't look anywhere else or for anyone to help bring that happiness to your life. Happiness comes as a reward of battles we win. Happiness will come from the will to be strong minded and the readiness to face the next challenge with a smile.
Sal Martinez
#92. Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception.
Debasish Mridha
#93. Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon as they experience passes, the happiness passes.
Frederick Lenz
#94. Real happiness comes from having an unassailable connection to the deep state of unbounded awareness at our core. This state of being is our own inner joy that expresses the exuberance and wonder of being alive at this moment; it is our own self-luminous essence made conscious of itself.
Deepak Chopra
#95. Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being that has achieved cross-level coherence within herself, and between herself and the people, challenges, and institutions around her. Happiness comes from between.
Jonathan Haidt
#96. In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
Robert Genn
#97. Imagine for a moment that life has given you everything you dream about, but you won't be happy, because happiness comes when you pursue your dreams, otherwise it is not your dream, but charity.
M.F. Moonzajer
#99. Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.
David O. McKay
#100. It takes a special courage to challenge the rigid confines of our accustomed story. It's not easy to radically alter our views about where happiness comes from but it's eminently possible.
Sharon Salzberg
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