Top 29 Quotes About Elusive Happiness
#1. Was I a dreamer, looking for an elusive happiness that real life could never deliver? Or were we meant to know the rapture of being alive, even at the cost of breaking the rules?
Elizabeth Lesser
#2. Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.
Brandon Mull
#3. Happiness can never be captured and is only elusive when it is chased after
Judy Azar LeBlanc
#4. Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find.
Frederick Lenz
#5. I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.
David Frum
#6. Happiness is elusive, for sure.But like love, and music, I believe in it because I can feel it.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#7. I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.
Martin Scorsese
#8. The Christian life is Christ living through a man, not a man trying to be Christ.
Dan DeHaan
#9. If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that's undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive.
Bill Bailey
#10. Health and happiness are the two most precious and elusive of human conditions. At their core, they are one and the same. Both are a function of balance.
Victor Shamas
#12. If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.
Bethenny Frankel
#13. Personal happiness seems mysteriously and frustratingly elusive. Even when people achieve it, they can't hold onto it. That is the greatest clue, the biggest hint, the surest sign that something's amiss.
Neale Donald Walsch
#14. To catch you're elusive dreams you must be prepared to track it to the ends of the earth. Let nothing stop you're pursuit of dreams.
Truth Devour
#15. happiness manifests itself both personally and collectively as an elusive and deceiving ghost that refuses to let anyone catch it.
Luis E. Navia
#16. The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.
Robert A. Johnson
#17. Happiness isn't some elusive treasure we chase after. It's a state of being we need to PRACTICE.
Brian Johnson
#18. Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.
Erik Erikson
#19. At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go with the currents, plan around the tides, follow the sun. We measure happiness by nothing we can hold, nothing we can catch. Everywhere, life is jumping and elusive and momentously momentary.
Sandy Gingras
#20. Emma was happy. She realized that happiness is something that springs from the generous treatment of others, and that until one makes that connection, happiness may prove elusive.
Alexander McCall Smith
#21. Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.
Ruskin Bond
#22. Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.
Gautama Buddha
#24. What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!
Elizabeth Bibesco
#25. Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive
coming perhaps once in a life-time
and approaching ectasy.
Daphne Du Maurier
#26. America's Declaration of Independence speaks of "the pursuit of happiness," but nowhere in the Bible are we told to pursue this. Happiness is elusive, and we don't find it by seeking it.
Billy Graham
#27. The major part of our species seems able to undergo any trauma without significantly re-examining its household mantras, including "everything happens for a reason," "the show must go on," "accept the things you cannot change," and any other adage that gets people to keep their chins up.
Thomas Ligotti
#28. As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.
Richard Hofstadter
#29. As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think about coming back, but I am retired, and after speaking to my family and following a great deal of introspection, I have decided to stay retired.
Oscar De La Hoya
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