Top 100 Happiness Self Quotes
#1. Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.
William Raspberry
#2. The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.
Nhat Hanh
#3. All the happiness, self-confidence, and support you're seeking is already within you.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#4. Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
Aaron Cohen
#5. How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.
Don Henley
#6. Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you.
Randy Gage
#7. When you enter the world of laughter, you enter the world of fantasy and creativity.
Thomas Flindt
#8. Trade your bitterness with gratefulness. You will find joy of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#9. Too much stress cannot be laid ... upon the admonition that we seek so far as possible to live in the lives of other people. By sharing in the misfortunes of others, and rejoicing in their happiness, you add to your own emotional serenity and stability.
Ralph Alfred Habas
#10. I think perhaps a better thing to want is fulfillment. A deeper state, one that comes from within, from being your best self. From living life the way you really wish to live it. Then, happiness emanates from within as a byproduct. Naturally.
Kamal Ravikant
#11. men will not cease to desire the impossible and will not lose their longing to destroy - so long as self-destruction and self-sacrifice are preached to them as the practical means of achieving the happiness of the recipients.
Ayn Rand
#12. America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.
Jonathan Haidt
#13. Don't try to be happy, just be happy. Because your happiness does not depend on others. Be the reason for your own happiness.
Vishwas Chavan
#15. You are wonderfully made. Everything about you is miraculous. Toss aside those self-doubts and criticisms. Celebrate, today, the miracle of you!
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#16. One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
Ramana Maharshi
#17. Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.
Daniel Klein
#18. Our success at friendship, business, sports, love
indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt
is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a confidence in their personal worth seem to be magnets for success and happiness.
Alan Loy McGinnis
#20. When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#21. Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
Ramana Maharshi
#22. You don't get happiness from success. You get success from happiness.
Thomas Flindt
#23. Happiness cannot be owned.
It is in living in the spiritual experience of living every breath, that lets us taste a moment of it.
Mimi Novic
#24. The British academic Richard Schoch, in his book The Secrets of Happiness, put it this way: "Your imagination must, to some extent, be found in a realm beyond reason because it begins with imagining a future reality: the self that you might become.
Eric Weiner
#25. One thing I've learned: we don't stumble accidentally into an amazing life. It takes decision, a commitment to consistently work on ourselves.
Kamal Ravikant
#26. Each of us is the best we can be when we are fully present, focused yet relaxed, curious yet non-judgmental, committed yet flexible.
John Kuypers
#27. Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.
Steve Maraboli
#28. Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which appeared each time again and again, which robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear?
Hermann Hesse
#29. Looking outside of yourself for love and acceptance, leaves your happiness in the hands of others.
Debra Beck
#30. One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain ... my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a good roll in the hay ... she missed out on all that ... like me, her son ... a lifetime of sacrifice! ... the woman who can grunt and rave in the throes of a deep fuck can die happy ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#31. To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us.
Allan Lokos
#32. Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
Maria Montessori
#33. Self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#34. It's important to recognize your own self-destructive behavior and be honest about it. You're only hurting yourself or losing out on your truth and happiness. I'm not afraid to face my own personal stuff. It's so important to dig it up and figure it out and move on.
Christina Aguilera
#36. 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
#37. We must live a genuine life in order to discover personal happiness and self-fulfillment. Understanding that a person is living a lie is the first step into realizing what is possible. No matter how frightful such a proposition is, we must dare to be an original self.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#38. Don't talk yourself into falling in love with someone. Either, you are in love or you are not. True love is not a choice. It is something you know in your heart when all guilt, doubt and fear are removed.
Shannon L. Alder
#39. How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#40. I am happy not because I am without pain, but because I know I am not that pain.
Vironika Tugaleva
#41. This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.
Peter Kreeft
#42. Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
Abraham Cowley
#44. You must love yourself first to the soul of your aura.
Jennifer Pierre
#45. Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
Aristotle.
#46. If you repeat your negative memories in your mind and feel self-pity, then YOU are both the abuser and the victim - not those who wronged you in the past. Your present and future will be happier if you take control of your thoughts.
Maddy Malhotra
#47. First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.
Robert A. Heinlein
#48. Happiness is long-lasting, a condition of the soul, the foundation on which the circumstances of life are experienced, endured, or enjoyed.
Auliq Ice
#49. Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.
William H. Douglas
#50. The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220
John Kuypers
#51. Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.
Steve Maraboli
#52. We have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as we have prostrated our understanding and degraded our nature, we have exhibited virtue, wisdom, and happiness, in our words, our actions, and our lives!
Frances Wright
#53. life was not a joyride at an amusement park. It was a deadly serious affair and only through a combination of solid values, self-control, and a steady commitment to a worthwhile goal was there a chance to achieve happiness.
Arthur C. Clarke
#54. Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.
Bobbe Sommer
#57. A lot of people travel because they are unhappy, but travelling does not necessary makes one happier. Sometimes it exacerbates the unhappiness, the loneliness.
Vann Chow
#58. The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda
#59. As a being and life form, all of mankind must seek the absolute sunshine of being. To do otherwise is to deny the essence of life; which is growth in body mind and soul. These in turn reflects Self love.
Auliq Ice
#60. When you can't seem to find happiness or peace in either direction you turn, maybe its time for self evaluation.
Auliq Ice
#61. Polarity exists so that we may discover the truth beyond this world of duality, which is the ultimate purpose of life.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#62. I am fortunate to be a resemblance, rather than a replication of who I was yesterday.
Rob Martin
#63. People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.
Criss Jami
#64. Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.
Iyanla Vanzant
#65. Logically, you should go to school, get good grades, go to college, get a good degree, go into the workplace, then work hard and be happy.
The only problem is that happiness isn't logical.
A.C. Ping
#66. You are without needs. There is nothing that you need in order to be perfectly happy. You only think that there is. Your deepest, most perfect happiness will be found within, and once you find it, nothing exterior to your Self can match it, nor can anything destroy it.
Neale Donald Walsch
#67. Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.
Stephen Covey
#68. Give as you wish to live, it all come's back to you. And that's without exception ...
Ian Tucker
#69. Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.
Goswami Kriyananda
#70. 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
#71. Don't be afraid to have goals and dreams. Even in the face of haters and those who do not believe in you, don't stop dreaming.
Auliq Ice
#72. The goal of this generation's pioneers should be to restrict procreation and limit consumption. They should also take every opportunity to make themselves happy, realizing that the key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.
Tom Robbins
#73. Happiness isn't something you pick up at the grocery store, nor is it something that comes to you at a certain age. It's a trait that lives within all of us, and it flourishes when you begin appreciating the things in life we take for granted.
T.A. Uner
#74. You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.
Deborah Day
#75. [We should be] determined ... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government ... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
#76. If we divested ourselves, once and for all, of all self-will, we would then be in a position of being sure of doing the Will of God, in which the angels find all their delight and men all their happiness.
Vincent De Paul
#78. Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.
Charlotte Eriksson
#79. So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.
Tom Johnson
#80. Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.
Nathaniel Branden
#81. True peaceful state is that when one has inner peace amidst total lack of peace on the outside. Bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst external turmoil is 'tested' samadhi.
Dada Bhagwan
#82. The myth of true love is one of the greatest self-deceptions ever embraced by the female sex. It's right up there with the ridiculous notion that money can't buy happiness and size doesn't matter.
J.T. Geissinger
#84. How foolish we are to keep repeating the negative memories from the past in our minds, while rarely thinking of the good times, nor being thankful for what we have. Be good to yourself and repeat and focus on the positive.
Maddy Malhotra
#85. Compensate the lack of love from the world with an abundance of self-love. Work on happiness inside. The external world will respond.
Ace Antonio Hall
#86. All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for you to be safe - safe from disease and violence and self-destruction.
Estelle Ramey
#87. Peace is self-examination and being all right with what you see. Freedom is being able to open up to others without the worry of persecution. Happiness is seeing others for who they are and embracing the differences.
Leeann Smith
#88. We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.
Seth Adam Smith
#89. Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.
Daisaku Ikeda
#90. Happiness and self worth can only be found through giving all of yourself to others.
Hank Angus
#91. The body is a self-sufficient source of strength, happiness, healing power, love and resilience. The secret to tap into these sources, is to increase your spirituality.
Linda Alfiori
#93. Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn't want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like.
Shannon L. Alder
#94. Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first.
Shannon L. Alder
#95. Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations.
Husam Wafaei
#96. We do not know how to make ourselves feel worthwhile on our own, and unless we specifically learn how to value ourselves, we go to our graves depending on others for a sense of self-worth.
Kevin Solomons
#98. He has infinite happiness not through self-centeredness, but through self-giving, other-centered love. And the only way we, who have been created in his image, can have this same joy, is if we center our entire lives around him instead of ourselves. Why
Timothy Keller
#99. Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch
#100. We can't be so desperate for love that we forget where we can always find it; within.
Alexandra Elle
