Happiness Paradox Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220

John Kuypers

#3. It felt safer to run, a moving target was harder to hit. But this vague sense of security evaporated when the darkness came, it was like running in a void where every step brought the threat of a painful fall.

Anthony Ryan

#4. It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

Piero Scaruffi

#5. Too much schooling ruins a woman; everyone knows that. It gives a woman a big head and she will start to insult her husband. What kind of wife will that be?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#6. The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

Vincent Nichols

#7. Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

Simon Sinek

#8. It is the wonderful paradox," he continued, "that the best way to achieve happiness for oneself is to give happiness to others.

David Michie

#9. Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#10. Having confidence in your obedience, offers yourself confidence and love.

Auliq Ice

#11. On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. This is the paradox of happiness that has bewitched our age.

Matthew Kelly

#12. It's so funny to get a call from Dustin Hoffman because he has that great voice.

Andie MacDowell

#13. It was too much happiness. Happiness puts you at too much risk - what if you were to lose it? Too much happiness is a paradox. It's a tragedy, even: getting something you've always wanted but being unable to keep it.

Jowita Bydlowska

#14. The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life dramatically improves.

Lee L Jampolsky

#15. 'm really proud of 'Sad, Sad World' because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced when I had children, which is this great happiness and this great intensity, but with that intensity comes a deeper understanding of the world.

Jamie Cullum