Top 100 Happiness Is Not Quotes
#1. You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.
Benedict Freedman
#2. Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
Horace
#3. Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.
Donna Ball
#4. Mrs. Gruber said that happiness was not something she aspired to, that when we had seen as much of the world as she had, we would know that what lies right behind the horseshit is not a prize pony, my dears, it's more horseshit.
Amy Bloom
#5. Most people are always doubtful as to whether they are happy or not, cheerful or not. This is the normal state of happiness, as doubt is a most natural thing.
Yukio Mishima
#6. Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison
#7. Another is that the findings demonstrate that happiness is not the surplus of pleasant over unpleasant moments. Rather,
Yuval Noah Harari
#9. Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
Anthony De Mello
#10. Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
Victor Hugo
#11. While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
Bo Bennett
#12. Happiness is your inherent nature. In the hustle and bustle of life, you have forgotten a part of yourself, and looking for it outside. Fill this void with happiness that is sustainable, not transitory; that illuminates your life and that of others, that is life giving and so natural.
Sanchita Pandey
#13. Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.
Frederick Lenz
#14. What love it to me ... is his happiness. I'm not like you where I fall in love so I can be happy. All I need is for him to be smiling.
Kim Su-mi
#15. Happiness then is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world, and these attributes are not severed as in the inscription at Delos-
Most noble is that which is justest, and best is health;
But pleasantest is it to win what we love.
Aristotle.
#16. Happiness is not ready made. It comes from your own actionns
Dalai Lama XIV
#17. To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish. I am Malala. My world has changed but I have not.
Malala Yousafzai
#18. Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
Aaron Cohen
#19. Suffering is primarily a
call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than
happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that, becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#21. If man wants to obtain knowledge of the greatness and happiness of these worlds, then is nothing else possible than that he also will be introduced to the dangerous, with the fearfulness that they contain. One is not possible without the other.
Rudolf Steiner
#22. You can't care what other people think of whom you choose to love, or not to love. When it comes to your love life, it's NOT the time to be satisfying other people's opinions. The difference between what's good for you and what's good for everyone else is happiness.
Chrissy Anderson
#23. I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.
Brittany Murphy
#24. Possession of wealth is not the happiness but expression of gratitude for the possession is the happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#25. Good character is more important than wealth, good looks, popularity and even education. These things do not guarantee happiness and often they become obstacles to developing good character.
Michael Josephson
#26. Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal.
Vann Chow
#27. There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.
C. JoyBell C.
#28. It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
May Sarton
#29. The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
#30. The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.
Ashly Lorenzana
#31. I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.
Albert Camus
#32. Education is not an expense, but it is the capital ready to be invested.
The return depends on the wisdom you gained.
Debasish Mridha
#33. happiness is not a place you reach but a state you create.
Robin S. Sharma
#34. There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could find peace of mind right here with us, for a mere twenty cents.
Bomar
Kurt Vonnegut
#36. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness ... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable.
Steve Maraboli
#37. Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.
Marty Rubin
#38. Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.
Paula McLain
#39. Embracing a life content with fewer possessions has modeled for them the important truths that personal belongings are not the key to happiness, that security is found in their character, and that the pursuit of happiness runs a different road than the pursuit of possessions.
Joshua Becker
#40. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
Ayn Rand
#41. He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.
E. M. Forster
#42. Wealth of a heart is measured not by how much love it received, but by how much it gave away without expectation.
Debasish Mridha
#43. A new year brings not only happiness, it makes us happy with a hope to fulfill our dreamz or a new beginning of our life. So, a new year is very special to everyone.
Santonu Kumar Dhar
#44. We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is a natural outcome of a state of being; that the state of being is the important thing; that a man can be a carpenter and be a great man.
Robert Henri
#45. Life is not about destination, it is a journey of creation.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours, if you care enough about me to take it.
Willa Cather
#47. Death is not the end; it is the beginning of the new life, the eternal life.
Debasish Mridha
#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. The only reasonable goal in life is maximizing your total lifetime experience of something called happiness. That might sound selfish, but it's not. Only a sociopath or a hermit can find happiness through extreme selfishness. A normal person needs to treat others well in order to enjoy life.
Scott Adams
#50. The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.
Sarah Jio
#51. Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.
Debasish Mridha
#52. Happiness is a quality of the soul ... not a function of one's material circumstances.
Aristotle.
#53. There are two things that give me perfect happiness - doing the perfect shot and travelling. I get stressed, really stressed by the fact that there is just so much to see and I am not going to live long enough to visit all the places I want to.
Anushka Sharma
#54. When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.
Dale Carnegie
#55. when the soul is transported, the only virtue lies in loving what you see (is that not true?), the supreme happiness in having what you have;
Umberto Eco
#56. Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Deepak Chopra
#57. Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.
Xi Jinping
#58. A Consciously Conscious Revolutionary Workplace mindset, is People Firsts, to ensure that it's not a prostitute of our children's future.
Tony Dovale
#59. Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
Orson Scott Card
#60. Salvation is not a matter of getting a reward that will make up for a rotten deal; it is a matter of entering by faith into the happiness - the hilarity beyond all liking and happening - that has been pounding on our door all along.
Robert Farrar Capon
#61. True Happiness is a state of the mind. Things that we acquire can make us momentarily happy but will not give us true freedom from our unhappiness.
Matthew Donnelly
#62. To me, ultimate happiness is a journey, not a destination. It's not somewhere you end up, it's making choices every day to make yourself happy.
Lizzie Velasquez
#63. Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#64. There is an excitement in creating a life, rather than maintaining a life you are not excited about living.
Shannon L. Alder
#65. The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else
that is, that it is not with you.
Robert Holden
#66. She expressed an opinion that the happiness of a woman in Paradise is beneath the soles of her husband's feet,' he enlightened humorously, seemingly not at all averse to her obvious desire to be comforted.
Margaret Rome
#67. A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.
Bertrand Russell
#68. Your happiness is a beacon of light in my life. Although you may not realize so now, your bright disposition will smooth many paths ahead for you. Whatever happens - don't ever let that light go out.
Jayne Castel
#69. Be not afraid of adventure. Life is an adventure full of wonder.
Debasish Mridha
#70. I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.
Steve Maraboli
#72. Gratitude is not just a word; it is a way a of life.
Rob Martin
#73. All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.
Erich Fromm
#74. Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
#75. Happiness is a decision, not an experience. You can decide to be happy without what you thought you needed in order to be happy, and you will be. Your experience is the result of your decision, not the cause of it.
Neale Donald Walsch
#77. No, your worst sin does not consist in what you did to your husband that day; rather it lies in your discontent with God's special creatures, with your fellow men. For this reason you can experience no real happiness....That is a grievous sin, Beret Holm!
O.E. Rolvaag
#78. Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.
Barbara De Angelis
#80. The destination is not the journey. The destination is the person you choose to enjoy the journey with.
Shannon L. Alder
#81. It is strange how custom can mould our tastes and ideas: many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life of such complete exile from the world.
Emily Bronte
#83. There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.
Gretchen Rubin
#84. Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.
Sharon Salzberg
#85. Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.
Marvin J. Ashton
#86. 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
#87. What she remembers now is not so much happiness as places where happiness occurred. Happiness was intangible, place made it visible.
Austin Wright
#88. Life is not always about happy endings. Sometimes it's about finding happiness in the ending you get.
Chip Rossetti
#89. When we plot the happiness of another, we unconsciously impute to the other person what is in another form the dream in which our own happiness is fulfilled. Thus by not thinking of our own happiness we make it possible for ourselves to become egotistic.
Yukio Mishima
#90. Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.
Jonathan Sacks
#91. Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of mind and not a condition of circumstances. - John Locke
Robert Jackson Bennett
#92. The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life ... The Bible ... should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.
Benjamin Rush
#93. If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.
Thomas Watson
#94. There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.
Orison Swett Marden
#95. History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#96. Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Pearl S. Buck
#97. Our job is not to find the peace or create peace, but to find and eliminate all the obstacles on the way to the peace.
Debasish Mridha
#98. Christ is with you. Do not abandon Him and He will not abandon you. You will see great sorrow, and in that sorrow you will be happy. This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness. Work, work unceasingly.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#99. The prayer that is heard is not of many words ... but of Oneness
Vivian Amis
#100. Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.
Banana Yoshimoto
