Top 100 No Happiness 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. 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
#3. I wonder," said Miss Oliver, "if humanity will be any happier because of aeroplanes. It seems to me that the sum of human happiness remains much the same from age to age, no matter how it may vary in distribution, and that all the 'many inventions' neither lessen nor increase it." "After
L.M. Montgomery
#4. When the dream that was no longer can be, you have to dream a different dream.
Christina Rasmussen
#5. (Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)
Stanley Cavell
#6. There is no poetry or song.
There is no short or long.
There is only you.
Debasish Mridha
#7. With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty, which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself everything but health, without which there is no happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
#8. Be so bright that no one can hide the greatness of your light.
Debasish Mridha
#10. There is no other, this is your life,
so be happy while you're living it.
Debasish Mridha
#11. It is always a foolish thing to contemplate suicide; for no matter how dark the future may appear today, tomorrow may hold for us that which will alter our whole life in an instant, revealing to us nothing but sunshine and happiness. So, for my part, I shall always wait for tomorrow.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#12. Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#13. To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.
Daisaku Ikeda
#14. Sometimes it's not about making a ton of money in one night, just to spend the rest of your life waiting on the next payday. You will fare better investing time, planning, strategic thinking in order to secure a stable, fruitful future.
Carlos Wallace
#15. Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour.
J.M. Bernstein
#16. In this life, no matter what you do-you will never be able to satisfy everyone. So stay true to yourself and do you. Trying to please others, you will only end up angry and dissatisfied with life.
Redd
#17. Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
William J. Bennett
#18. I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness.
Cora Pearl
#19. There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It's just a waste of perfectly good happiness.
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
#20. But if, through seeking happiness, my deeds are wrong, No matter where I turn my steps, The knives of misery will cut me down, The wage and retribution of a sinful life.
Santideva
#21. A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!
Guy De Maupassant
#22. Let us take pleasure in what we have received and make no comparison; no man will ever be happy if tortured by the greater happiness of another.
Seneca.
#23. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. Persistence creates genius; without persistence, there is no winner.
Debasish Mridha
#25. A good poem has rhyming but no ending, it continues to rhyme in our heart.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Happiness has no formula, it's an ingredient and it's always there.
Testy McTesterson
#27. Everyone thinks that they are intelligent even though there is no sign of intelligence.
Debasish Mridha
#28. No one can know sincere happiness, Sophie, without first having known sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity and rareness of such a fiery bliss without seeing misery, however unfair that may be.
Fisher Amelie
#29. No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
Clement Attlee
#30. I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#31. The world will see the peace when we will understand that there are no enemies but there are friends who don't understand me.
Debasish Mridha
#32. No blame. No regrets. Gratitude and happiness in every direction.
J.T. Gillett
#34. Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.
Wayne W. Dyer
#35. 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
#36. Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.
Jeanette Lee
#37. Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
Anthony Hopkins
#38. The grass is often no greener on the other side, so stick it out and see if you can grow up within the relationship. Find happiness and emotional independence within yourself before placing unreasonable and often unexpressed expectations on your spouse.
Malti Bhojwani
#39. It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#40. Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it.
Debasish Mridha
#41. We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.
Arthur Golden
#42. Humanity has one strength that no one has: that is we may feel the feelings, pain, jealousy, failure, love, happiness of others and identify with them, and even see the world through their own eyes.
Orhan Pamuk
#43. The thing that makes me happy is that I know that on Mars, two hundred years from now, my books are going to be read. They'll be up on dead Mars with no atmosphere. And late at night, with a flashlight, some little boy is going to peek under the covers and read The Martian Chronicles on Mars.
Ray Bradbury
#44. 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
#45. He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
#46. Peace of heart - without it, no good can make us happy. With it, every trial, even the approach of death, can be borne.
Frederic Ozanam
#47. So if we know no place, no job, no marriage, no child is going to fulfill us perfectly, we can make the choice to quit fighting for happiness in all of it and start to fight for God's glory in it.
Jennie Allen
#48. There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.
Lucian
#49. Until you're willing to accept what already is - the things of your past that you can't change - there's no space for you to create what you want. Acceptance is the key to unlocking the door to true peace, happiness, and freedom.
Hal Elrod
#50. It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing.
Tim O'Brien
#51. Fill your mind with thoughts of calmness and happiness; there will be no room for anxiety.
Debasish Mridha
#52. But freedom and human happiness has a direct relationship to the number of people who have power over their own world, their own lives. Far too many people still have no say in how they live.
The more power is dispersed, the more that will change.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#53. -Wherever you go, there you are! You can't run away from yourself, or the underlying situation, no matter where you go. You won't find happiness anywhere, unless it's already there in your heart, and therefore you have carried it with you.
Andrew James Pritchard
#54. 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
#55. What can we do with this happiness that appears for no obvious reason, the joy that needs no cause to exist?
Isabel Allende
#56. You could be married and bored or single and lonely. Ain't no happiness nowhere.
Chris Rock
#57. That was an evil terror
an ugly inmate to have found a nestling-place in Godfrey's kindly disposition; but no disposition is a security from evil wishes to a man whose happiness hangs on duplicity.
George Eliot
#58. Faith is a gateway to happiness that remains permanently accessible to each of us, wherever we are, no matter our circumstances.
Mary Lou Retton
#59. You cannot rely on others to provide your happiness to you. No one can accomplish that on a consistent enough basis. Your happiness is entirely your responsibility.
D.S. Luca
#60. We're young, we're not monsters, no fools: we'll conquer happiness for ourselves.
Ivan Turgenev
#61. One will have to know the Self. Unless Self is known, God [Allah] cannot be attained. The power of Self should be attained. The power of Self is an abode of infinite bliss. There is no unhappiness there at all. This happiness is there even if someone insults you!
Dada Bhagwan
#64. Happiness is the cure - a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both. No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
Charlotte Bronte
#65. The Bible teaches that faith is the only approach that we have to God. No man has sins forgiven, no man goes to heaven, no man has assurance of peace and happiness, until he has faith in Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#66. You don't seem to have guts. There is no need to surrender to each other. Surrender to love means: enjoy in the happiness of the other, rejoice in the being of the other; be in tune with each other, dance in harmony.
Rajneesh
#67. I believe that in a way, sadness is happiness for there can be no wrong without right, no light without dark, no success without failure, no relief without pain, no love without hatred and no Snow White without the evil queen.
Girl234
#68. We can no longer afford to throw away even one 'unimportant' day by not noticing the wonder of it all. We have to be willing to discover and then appreciate the authentic moments of happiness available to all of us every day.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#69. If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.
Frederick Lenz
#70. Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.
Marion Milner
#71. No object, no event, no outcome or life circumstance can deliver real happiness to us. We have to make our own happiness - by working hard at activities that provide their own reward.15
Jane McGonigal
#73. No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles ...
Louisa May Alcott
#74. Does this thing I wish to do express more life, more happiness, more peace to myself, and at the same time harm no one? If it does, it is right. It is not selfish.
Ernest Holmes
#75. No matter what, be the best, strive for excellence without rest.
Debasish Mridha
#76. I sold the collection because I finally understood what true love really meant. Tim had told me-and shown me-that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. - John Tyree
Nicholas Sparks
#77. No matter how much someone else loves you or you love other people,
if you don't love yourself then it can never be enough.
Shannon Kaiser
#78. We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.
Barbara Johnson
#79. Most people are afraid of suffering. But suffering is a kind of mud to help the lotus flower of happiness grow. There can be no lotus flower without the mud. - THICH NHAT HANH
Thich Nhat Hanh
#80. Everything she meant to say was
you've given a worth and happiness to my life
that I had no right to believe could ever exist
Shane Koyczan
#81. No one thought of anything but themselves. My happiness, my future was the only thing you heard. Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another, and that's what people today are incapable of.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#82. When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.
Shannon L. Alder
#83. Her ambitions were no longer specifically for happiness or financial security or freedom from disease (thought they included all three), but for something more general: the continuing certainty of things. She needed to know that she would carry on being herself.
Julian Barnes
#84. No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling.
Staness Jonekos
#85. Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle.
#86. If there are no stars on the sky, you must try to be happy with the shining streetlights!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#87. Love has no monetary value, but without love, life has no value.
Debasish Mridha
#89. Randolph," he said, "do you know something? I'm very happy." To which his friend made no reply. The reason for this happiness seemed to be simply that he did not feel unhappy; rather, he knew all through him a kind of balance. There was little for him to cope with.
Truman Capote
#90. Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
Joseph Joubert
#92. There's no greater happiness than doing something every day that you love, that you feel you do in a satisfactory fashion, and which both supports and gives you time to support your family. I felt so lucky to have all that.
Anna Quindlen
#93. When you first start to practice positive thinking, tell no one, go to it realistically, stop dwelling on your difficulties, your sorrows. Radiate the happiness you reall want in your life.
Albert E Cliffe
#94. There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
Jeanette Winterson
#95. If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.
Dalai Lama
#96. Express your feelings, no matter what. Make your every word beautiful, bright, and lovely. Make your every thought creative, caring, and lively.
Debasish Mridha
#97. My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#98. If there were no women then men would still be living in the jungle.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.
Beyonce Knowles
#100. If we learn to know that there is no enemy but we only have friend with misunderstanding then peace will be there.
Debasish Mridha