Own Happiness Quotes

#1. We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a walking stick, to determine the safety of every forward step.

Jesse Browner

#2. Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

Deepak Chopra

#3. I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

Jane Austen

#4. And that leaves you with an interesting choice ... Do you sacrifice you own happiness and feelings of peace in order to have this relationship, or do you start to get well and choose a real life ... ?

Nic Sheff

#5. I have nothing else to offer you but my own happiness. Please say that it, at least, measures up, that it is a proper sort of unhappiness.

Walker Percy

#6. My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

Margot Asquith

#7. All of us are in the manufacturing industry - manufacturing either our own happiness or unhappiness.

Ogwo David Emenike

#8. A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

Julia McNair Wright

#9. I am convinced our own happiness requires that we should continue to mix with the world, and to keep pace with it as it goes. - Wise words from Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).

Thomas Jefferson

#10. The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness

Esther Hicks

#11. There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#12. Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

Joseph Butler

#13. Happiness must be a jealous pet. When you try seeking yours out, it tends to keep hidden. But as soon as you turn to help a friend find his, your own happiness comes bounding out of the darkness like some crazed animal.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Meir Kahane

#15. It's not my job to make you happy. It's your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own happiness find it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of shorter periods such as moments, days, or years? And to what extent are virtue and happiness linked?

Sissela Bok

#17. Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy

Shantideva

#18. I want to protect my own happiness. I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal girl.

Ai Yazawa

#19. Killing flowers for our own happiness is a wrong attitude, it is a wrong culture! We must change this attitude and abolish this culture! Let the flowers live!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

Harry Browne

#21. If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.

Guilherme Leal

#22. I have never, nor will I ever, have an issue with anyone's sexuality. Gay, straight, bi, lesbian, it doesn't matter to me. I believe everyone has a right to find their own happiness. I would never ridicule or stand in the way of love,

Anonymous

#23. I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Ayn Rand

#24. You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#25. Sometimes, when I was looking out for my own happiness, I almost forgot you existed.

Alan Gibbons

#26. Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

Irving Babbitt

#27. I have trouble asking for what I want, especially when it comes to men."
"If you don't ask for what you want, how do you get it?" Felicia asked. "If you're relying on him guessing, you're sabotaging your own happiness.

Susan Mallery

#28. At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.

Jill Scott

#29. There's nothing happy about having your fate decided for you! You have to grab your own happiness!

Hiro Mashima

#30. Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

#31. I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

Ray Kroc

#32. We welcome that kind of shrapnel so that when it twinges in our souls we're filled with that glowing feeling that comfort us in our darkest hours and whispers from somewhere inside that our own happiness isn't impossible nor is it entirely lost.

Carrie Hope Fletcher

#33. We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

John Tillotson

#34. You are in despair, because you wish to live for your own happiness.

Leo Tolstoy

#35. It's not the job of the child to make the parent happy. It's the job of the parent to take care of their own happiness.

Art Hochberg

#36. I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.

Sandra Bullock

#37. A man can achieve his own happiness only by pursuing the happiness of others, because it is only by forgetting about his own happiness that he can become happy.

Lao-Tzu

#38. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

Jane Austen

#39. Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown.

Sarah Silverman

#40. The wise person understands that his own happiness must include the happiness of others.

Dennis Weaver

#41. Remember that the one person who can make you joyous and happy is YOU! You do not have to put the key to your own happiness in someone else's pocket!

Sanchita Pandey

#42. The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness

Simon Bolivar

#43. When my own happiness was a mystery to me, what hope did I have of being instrumental in someone else's?

Alexis Hall

#44. You have the right to promote your own happiness just like everyone else, just like me. Your present dream has been shattered, but you can dream another. You should know that 'you can't relive old dreams.' Even if you force them to come true, they won't bring you happiness.

Mao Dun

#45. Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.

Osamu Dazai

#46. Do you think we make sad things into songs in order to hold on to the sadness or to banish it - I think it is to banish the sadness. So then if you write a happy song, is it not sadder than a sad song because by making it you have banished your own happiness into a song?

Sarah Ruhl

#47. My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.

Jennifer Garner

#48. Anger is an alarm system, signaling the presence of nothing more than fear. It tells us we are working at cross-purposes to our own happiness, fearing the loss of something more than we enjoy the experience of having it.

Jesse D. Jennings

#49. Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

Charles Dickens

#50. Being in control of your own destiny is a myth - and wouldn't be half as much fun anyway. Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, it's still okay to feel responsible for someone else's.

Michael J. Fox

#51. Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Dennis Prager

#52. When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.

Woodrow Wilson

#53. Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.

Claudius Claudianus

#54. The secret is this. You make your own happiness.

Harold Klemp

#55. If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell

#56. Don't let your mood or happiness be dictated by the judgement of others but stay true to that you believe in because you're the architect of your own happiness.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#57. According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

John Buchanan Robinson

#58. She had always been ... the motive power of her own happiness.

Ayn Rand

#59. You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.

Stephen Richards

#60. If I spend my life preoccupied with me and my own happiness, I will live life missing the deepest joy that God has for me. When

Matthew Kelly

#61. Sometimes it's about more than your own happiness. Sometimes you have to think of other people.

Aaron Starmer

#62. The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace.

Allan Lokos

#63. We often assume that the question, "How can I be happy?" can be successfully answered without reference to the love of God and our neighbors. And the irony is that if our biggest question is our own happiness, we can never know the God in whom we find our ultimate joy and rest.

Michael S. Horton

#64. Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.

Andie MacDowell

#65. If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing?

Cathleen Schine

#66. Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

Alexander Hamilton

#67. At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.

Holly Holm

#68. What you do for your own happiness should ultimately make everyone happy.

Lalithambika Antharjanam

#69. Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

G.A. Henty

#70. If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.

Byron Katie

#71. The fastest way to your own happiness is to make another happy.

Deepak Chopra

#72. Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.

Frederick Lenz

#73. We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Albert Einstein

#74. I find my own happiness in life...other people are not necessary.

Natalie De Clare

#75. Everyone is the architect of their own happiness

Joseph Pilates

#76. Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

Reese Witherspoon

#77. A woman who knows her power has in her hands the key to her own happiness and success.

Raffaella Barker

#78. I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.

Natascha McElhone

#79. Look in the mirror every day and say, I am in charge. You might not have control over every phase of your life, but you have more control than you realize, and you are responsible for your own happiness and success.

Harvey MacKay

#80. Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.

Peter Singer

#81. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people
first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

Albert Einstein

#82. Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Aimee Mullins

#83. If our life has no meaning other than our own happiness, we are likely to find that when we have obtained what we think we need to be happy, happiness itself still eludes us.

Peter Singer

#84. It's always best to feel fulfilled first, before finding a man. Then you'll know the value of yourself, and you'll hold the key to your own happiness. So you won't turn into a vulnerable, needy, emotional mess the minute you fall in love.

Menna Van Praag

#85. You do care a little for me, I know ... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now ... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.

E. M. Forster

#86. It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.

Bertrand Russell

#87. The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#88. The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It's not a matter of learning techniques to "make friends and influence people." Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others.

Sharon Salzberg

#89. Don't wait for me anymore.
I hope for love for you.
I hope for this more than anything else, maybe even more than my own happiness.
And in a way, perhaps that means I love Xander best of all.

Ally Condie

#90. We are already in Hell. It is the earth itself that is Hell, the prison constructed for us by an intelligence superior to our own, in which I could not take a step without injuring the happiness of others, and in which my fellow creatures could not enjoy their own happiness without causing me pain.

August Strindberg

#91. The April night on which Sammy felt most aware of the luster of his existence - the moment when, for the first time in his life, he was fully conscious of his own happiness - was a night that he would never discuss with anyone at all.

Michael Chabon

#92. If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.

Malcolm Gladwell

#93. A big part of dealing with depression is realizing that you are in control of your own happiness.

Brian Michael Good

#94. The secret to my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands. I must not miss that opportunity!

Dalai Lama XIV

#95. You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Jane Austen

#96. Economies thrive when individuals strive, but because individuals will only strive for their own happiness, it is essential that they mistakenly believe that producing and consuming are routes to personal well-being.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#97. I don't believe in drugs. Attitude is everything. You can create your own happiness just by agreeing to be happy for no other reason and blow the moon out of the sky. After all, isn't that the true effect of medications?

Jes Fuhrmann

#98. How shall we live in order to be happy? Your ability to ask and answer that question correctly for yourself - and then to follow where your answer leads you - will largely determine whether you achieve your own happiness, and how soon.

Brian Tracy

#99. If men would learn to pursue their own happiness rather than the misery of others, we can achieve a better life for everyone. Adopting this would help turn our Earth into a paradise.

Bertrand Russell

#100. But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.

Emily Giffin