Top 72 Happiness Is Not A Place Quotes
#2. happiness is not a place you reach but a state you create.
Robin S. Sharma
#3. We no have to reach a place easy if our Happiness is there.
Jan Jansen
#5. The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It's the tender understanding that we're living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there's quite a bit of wonder in that.
F.K. Preston
#6. The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love. Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.
Josef Pieper
#7. If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for training and correction and it's not so bad.
C.S. Lewis
#8. And suddenly I am washed over by a wave of happiness for it, for my little story, because it is a place, a home even, and I can go back to it from wherever I am
David Grossman
#9. I suggest you all ask your mothers to make you some smiles and keep them in your pockets. If you ever find any one feeling sad or frightened or angry, then you can give them a smile and you will see what a change takes place.
Deepak Menon
#10. Life is a journey- not only to see the world- to find yourself, your place in the world, and your happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#11. The way to be happy is to
take pleasure in what you do and how you do it, not in
imagining that happiness is some place at the end of the road.
Toby Reynolds
#13. Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world. Instead it is based on the boundless inner energy they gain from their connection with the world of enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#14. I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.
Laura Marling
#15. There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.
Wallace Stegner
#16. The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place")
Gertrude Atherton
#17. Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a monk's life, because you cannot begin to do anything unless you have some idea what you are trying to do.
Thomas Merton
#18. The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
Sidney Sheldon
#19. It is not so much what we get out of life as what we put into it that determines how large our returns of happiness shall be. The triumphant life is to be achieved through service. But it must be free and not compulsory ... There is a place where the path of duty suddenly becomes the path of beauty.
Frank C. Lockwood
#20. I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness.
Katrina Kaif
#21. Today is nothing but a snapshot of a place I've been, but not the place I'll always be.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#23. If you're not thinking about a negative thought, your vibration is going to raise to its natural positive place.
Esther Hicks
#24. He had learned the rare secret that you must take happiness when you find it - that there is no use in marking the place and coming back to it at a more convenient season, because it will not be there then.
L.M. Montgomery
#25. To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to Happiness.
Thomas Traherne
#26. A home is not a place. It's not a country or a town or a building or possession. Home is with the other half of your soul, the person who shares in your grief and helps you carry the burden of loss. Home is with the person who throughout it all never gives up on you and brings you eternal happiness.
Tillie Cole
#27. What I'm willing to admit is that my mind, as it serves my heart, becomes a very creative place, capable of surprising ingenuity and masterful reframes. And in this incredibly creative place, my world works for me, not against me.
Lori Cash Richards
#28. Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.
Thomas Paine
#29. They cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.
Laini Taylor
#30. While Nice is just a place in France, happiness will always be a foreign state of mind. But fuck it. Let's rage.
The Betches
#31. Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love.
Suze Orman
#32. I've got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories.
Jane Goodall
#33. There is a fine line between compassion and a victim mentality. Compassion though is a healing force and comes from a place of kindness towards yourself. Playing the victim is a toxic waste of time that not only repels other people, but also robs the victim of ever knowing true happiness.
Bronnie Ware
#34. Always, when you know what you don't want, that's when the rocket of desire is born of what you do want. That is the fruit of your experience. Now pluck it and savor it and enjoy it. Visualize it, and find the feeling place of it. And live happily ever after, once you get the hang of this.
Esther Hicks
#35. Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
Vikram Seth
#36. Your long-term happiness and fulfillment depend on your ability to fulfill your soul's unique purpose and to fill the place in the world that only you can fill, making the contribution that only you can make.
Rod Stryker
#37. I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.
Thomas Browne
#38. I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams
to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility.
where suffering and pain do not exist,
where we give praises for our joy and happiness,
where our Love interwines with Love for all things.
Rumi
#39. the best place to find status, identity, meaning, and happiness is in experiences,
James Wallman
#40. I hated Shallow Grave, that movie made me angry. And I hated Happiness. I generally hate movies that use extreme violence or gratuitous shock value in place of having a heart. For example: movies that combine extremely sadistic violence with humor I find offensive.
Jesse Michaels
#41. Home was quite a place when people stayed there.
E.B. White
#42. That was an evil terror
an ugly inmate to have found a nestling-place in Godfrey's kindly disposition; but no disposition is a security from evil wishes to a man whose happiness hangs on duplicity.
George Eliot
#43. What she remembers now is not so much happiness as places where happiness occurred. Happiness was intangible, place made it visible.
Austin Wright
#44. It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.
George Porter
#45. My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.
Charlotte Eriksson
#46. So if we know no place, no job, no marriage, no child is going to fulfill us perfectly, we can make the choice to quit fighting for happiness in all of it and start to fight for God's glory in it.
Jennie Allen
#47. And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we found what we loved to do and we were at the right place at the right time and we've gotten to go to work every day with super bright people for 30 years and do what we love doing.
Steve Jobs
#48. His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever is happy, place or person, it does not matter which.
Elizabeth Spencer
#49. There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
Fiona Shaw
#50. The only thing that keeps us from a place of joy is an illusion, the illusion of fear.
Molly Friedenfeld
#51. Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.
Catherine The Great
#52. The point of simple living, for me has got to be:
A soft place to land
A wide margin of error
Room to breathe
Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day
Leo Babauta
#53. I will always try to be happy. I don't think people really understand the value of happiness until they know what it's like to be in that very, very dark place. It's not romantic. Not even a little.
Sarah Silverman
#55. I think it's contentment. Where you have everything you ever wanted, all together in one place. It's quieter than excitement, but, [ ... ] maybe it's better.
Heather Anastasiu
#56. Everyone's life matters and everyone deserves to be happy but not everyone is in a place where they think, or even believe, happiness is possible.
Cheryl B. Evans
#57. Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place.
This seems like a place where the sun should never shine: a place on the edge, at the limit, a place completely removed from time and happiness and life.
Lauren Oliver
#58. There is much that I remember but which is painful to dwell on. I see no need to write about these things. They are over and must be accepted, made sense of and forgiven, afforded no more than their proper place in a long life in which I have always known that happiness is a gift, not a right.
P.D. James
#59. Real happiness comes from a deeper place, not from anything external. The freshest and best water flows from the deepest, darkest chasms of the mountain. Likewise, true happiness flows from the hidden places of the human heart.
Bobby Schuller
#60. Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place O, to abide in the desert with thee!
James Hogg
#61. STRAWMAN. Are you less Intractable than when we parted? FALK. Nay, I go my own inexorable way - STRAWMAN. Even tho' you crush another's happiness? FALK. I plant the flower of knowledge in its place. [Smiling.
Henrik Ibsen
#62. Be a person that radiates happiness with her every movement and enlightens every place she goes with her smile.
Debasish Mridha
#63. If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.
Hamza Yusuf
#64. The world is a peaceful place.
We make it hateful by forgetting our grace.
Debasish Mridha
#65. When you have inner peace and inner happiness
You will see the world as a peaceful place.
Debasish Mridha
#66. Where or how huge is the place we live or in what religion we believe doesn't matters when there is no happiness in our soul life is as a empty.bottle.
Jan Jansen
#67. An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell
#68. 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
#69. It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.
Roger L'Estrange
#70. Even the darkest cloud had a silver lining; you can either miss it as you run away to a hiding place as darkness approaches you or you can go seeking it, empowered with the ardent desire to find happiness in life.
Maliny Mohan
#71. If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell. Let me be outraged and annihilated, but for one instant, in one being, let Your enormous Library be justified.
Jorge Luis Borges
#72. He is in heaven now, and happy; or if not there, he bides in hell and is content; for in that place he will find neither abbot nor yet bishop.
Mark Twain
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