Happiness Is Not Constant Quotes

#1. To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.

Zhuangzi

#2. Constant thoughts of money, possession, and control are a personal prison. Thoughts of God, family, and happiness are freedom.

Ron Baratono

#3. True happiness starts in the core of our true selves as a constant, a guidepost, a default, and a strength that shines from the inside out.

Elaina Marie

#4. The spectrum of possibilities is vast and our souls long to incorporate as many as they can... We are in a constant process of learning how to think, behave, or act understanding the manifestations of Tao, the manifestation of Qi within us.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#5. The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

Saint Augustine

#6. The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.

Anthony De Mello

#7. Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary.

Jack H. Goaslind

#8. Happiness isn't a constant. You get fleeting glimpses. You have to fight for those moments, but they make it all worth it.

Taylor Swift

#9. Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions
not just constant sunshiny happiness.

Janet Gonzalez-Mena

#10. Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress - the solutions to today's problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow's problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving. Sometimes

Mark Manson

#11. Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.

Francois Lelord

#12. They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

#13. Men on "Women"
For men, their right to control and abuse the bodies of women is the one comforting constant in a world rigged to blow up but they do not know when."
"Coitus as punishment for the happiness of being together" which is profound and moving.

Andrea Dworkin

#14. Life and death are in constant battle. There is no way in this world for happiness to exist alone ...

Nancy Farmer

#15. Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

Jacob Burckhardt

#16. Constant remembrance of the Almighty will bring you everlasting happiness and peace

Radhe Maa

#17. When you experience your origin as a reality, you are happy. Be constant under all circumstances and relate to one thing - you are a part of Infinity and always lean on that power - then you'll never be unhappy.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#18. Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

Jose Marti

#19. We stand in the bathroom and look at our face and say, "Stop getting old, face. I command you!" and it doesn't listen. Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being.

Amy Poehler

#20. After all that is bewitching in the idea of a single and constant attachment, and all that can be said of one's happiness depending entirely on any particular person, it is not meant
it is not fit
it is not possible that it should be so.
Edward will marry Lucy

Jane Austen

#21. No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.

Han Fei

#22. Life has a much bigger plan for you. Happiness is part of that plan. Health is part of that plan. Stability is part of that plan. Constant struggle is not.

Kris Carr

#23. Initially, the positive emotions derived from cultivating our higher natures may be weak, but we can enhance them through constant familiarity, making our experiences of happiness and inner contentment far more powerful than a life abandoned to purely impulsive emotions.

Dalai Lama XIV

#24. Because money permits a constant stream of luxuries and indulgences, it can take away their savor, and by permitting instant gratification, money shortcuts the happiness of anticipation. Scrimping, saving, imagining, planning, hoping
these stages enlarge the happiness we feel.

Gretchen Rubin

#25. As long as we love happiness will be our constant companion.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#26. Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.

Saint John Chrysostom

#27. The constant need to make everyone else happy at the cost of your own happiness will destroy you.

Larry Winget

#28. A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?

Ayn Rand

#29. Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

Amy Chua

#30. Happy is he to whom, in the maturer season of life, there remains one tried and constant friend ...

Anna Letitia Barbauld

#31. Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

Robertson Davies

#32. I like living, breathing better than working ... my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.

Marcel Duchamp

#33. They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Confucius

#34. We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.

Charles Frazier

#35. The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life

Mohammed Naseehu Ali

#36. Your problems will keep coming and going. It is in your interest to deal with them with equanimity and focus on finding happiness in whatever you do. Be the kind of person who says about problems - this too shall pass, and about happiness - it is my constant companion.

Lamees Alhassar

#37. To become desireless, to not want anything external to ourselves, means we rest in ourselves, whole, joyous and happy. In this state, our true nature is constant love, unending love, giving love.

Lawrence Crane

#38. The world is perfect, and at the same time, it is in a constant state of unfolding. This is also true for you and me. Our quest for enlightenment is really just a re-connection with something that already exists in us.

Victor Shamas

#39. All other things held constant, to the extent that an individual or society sees, believes in, and acts in abundance, so will it have wealth and happiness.

David Cameron Gikandi

#40. At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

Anton Chekhov

#41. After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

Paulo Coelho

#42. truly good life is defined not by the material things we try to fill ourselves with but by the spiritual and emotional things that we are already filled with. These things lead to a constant state of happiness.

Adam Houge

#43. Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#44. In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself.

Mantak Chia

#45. It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything.

Pharrell Williams

#46. The constant happiness is curiosity.

Alice Munro

#47. The value of taking risks through all stages of life is constant ... it's the excuses that change.

Rik Leaf

#48. Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

Voltaire

#49. You may have misery," she continued, ignoring my plea, "you may lose hope in the sorrow of an unplanned life but as long as you have faith and trust in adoration, in affection, in love, that sorrow will turn to happiness. And that is a constant, dear.

Fisher Amelie