Inward Happiness Quotes

#1. Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances.

James Pierrepont Greaves

#2. The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

Lin Yutang

#3. Those who possess that treasure which no thief can take away, Which, though on suppliants freely spent, increaseth day by day, The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth
To them e'en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.

Bhartrhari

#4. Also discovered my inward happiness and my defensive armor of superficiality and gaiety.

Francine Prose

#5. Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate [in] many privations and disappointments.

Norm MacDonald

#6. The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need on no outward stimulus.

Billy Graham

#7. A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Soren Kierkegaard

#8. The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?

George Berkeley

#9. The French do some things better, like spanking for instance.

Chloe Thurlow

#10. As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Chanakya

#11. Let us now yearn for the possibility of building a happiness in every heart. Let us now build inward a new world of hope, a world of limitless possibilities for the children of tomorrow, where each soul can reach the heights of their potential to love and to be loved.

Bryant McGill

#12. We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.

Joseph Hall

#13. Happiness is a choice. Happiness does not depend on outward conditions but on inward decisions.

Cameron C. Taylor

#14. Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Benjamin Franklin

#15. If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.

Pietro Metastasio

#16. A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#17. To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and go beyond the mind. By turning the mind's concentration inward, upon the self, we can deepen that experience of perfect concentration. This is the state of Meditation.

Sivananda

#18. Appearance is valued too much in our society.

Claude Lelouch

#19. Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

John Chrysostom

#20. I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with you I'm going to sell you something whether you want it or not. At the end you'll say: 'I'm glad I bought that.'

Jerry Weintraub

#21. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

William Lyon Phelps

#22. Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt.

Lord Chesterfield

#23. The secrets of the universe aren't really secrets. It's just that humanity is too subjugated by their blissful ignorance to ask the right questions. When you have all of the answers, but are unable to ask any questions to them, then all you have are secrets.

Lionel Suggs

#24. I would suggest that the next generation stop looking for happiness outside of themselves but instead turn inward.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#25. Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke