Top 58 Quotes About Lasting Happiness
#1. Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.
Allan Lokos
#2. Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.
Tal Ben-Shahar
#4. The pursuit of material-external things as if they can provide deep and lasting happiness is contributing to a dwindling of real meaning and is a factor contributing to an increase in mental health problems. It just isn't possible to fill the hole inside us by piling up the things outside us. pg9
Dr Stephen McKenzie And Dr Craig Hassed
#5. The yoga tradition asserts that lasting happiness is dependent on prospering both materially and spiritually.
Rod Stryker
#6. When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love.
Dalai Lama
#7. Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.
Alfred Billings Street
#8. Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?
Amin Maalouf
#9. According to Jesus, acknowledging our neediness opens the door to genuine and lasting happiness. Religions usually talk about what a person has to "do", but Jesus talks about what we "can't do". He says that our weakness, not our power or what we bring to God, enables us to know God.
Paul E. Miller
#10. Learning to honor all four of your soul's desires compels you to thrive at every level, leads to lasting happiness as well as a complete and balanced life.
Rod Stryker
#11. There was no lasting happiness ... You just need to be grateful when it comes ...
There was no eternal sadness ... You just need to be patient until it goes
So ... whatever happens, life must go on ..
Just live and love your life ... because we are not immortal .. # andry_lavigne
Andry Lavigne
#12. There are many roads in this world that will guide you to pleasurable, fun, and exciting destinations that do not end in any form of lasting happiness. So before you step on an enticing path, figure out where it leads.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#13. Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
William Henry Harrison
#14. If you think something in the material world can provide you with lasting happiness then lasting happiness will never be yours.
D.S. Luca
#15. When we understand the best way to achieve all our goals is to assist others in achieving their goals, we will find the key to lasting happiness.
Neale Donald Walsch
#16. It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others.
Anne McCaffrey
#17. A woman must marry the man who loves her, but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.
Mariama Ba
#18. Things which provide deep and lasting happiness and gratitude are the things which money cannot buy: our families, the gospel, good friends, our health, our abilities, the love we receive from those around us.
Thomas S. Monson
#19. There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.
Chris Prentiss
#20. The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.
Vincent Nichols
#21. I think the closest any of us may come to lasting happiness is in seeing to the needs of others; I think the same may be true for those who go in sunlight, though their lives are so short that many will not discover this in time.
Christopher Buehlman
#22. Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
Walter Savage Landor
#23. It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
Hugo Black
#24. You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness.
Roopleen
#25. When two people achieve lasting happiness, this is not solely because they are great lovers but because they are also - I must put it crudely - good people; controlled, loyal, fair-minded, mutually adaptable people.
C.S. Lewis
#26. Lasting happiness starts with one question ... what can I celebrate?
Michael Beckwith
#27. there's more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief.
Pema Chodron
#28. Stop trying to get more in life and try to be more for life. That's where lasting happiness lies.
Robin S. Sharma
#29. The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And while the Lord desires that we enjoy His gifts and the people to whom we are joined, He wants us to know that we were created first for His pleasure.
Francis Frangipane
#30. If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
#31. If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalier
#32. 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
#33. I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.
Dalai Lama
#34. The key to lasting happiness is to stop looking for it, and to know that you already have it.
Deepak Chopra
#35. Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life's purpose.
Robin Sharma
#36. Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.
Dalai Lama
#37. There are no short and easy paths to a long and lasting happiness.
Nick Vujicic
#38. Most people yearn for one thing more than anything else: inner peace. Without it they have no lasting happiness or security.
Billy Graham
#39. Confounded, though immortal. But his doom, reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought both of lost happiness and lasting pain torments him.
John Milton
#40. Moment by moment the Holy Spirit will work with your beliefs, taking you step by step as you unwind your mind from the many false concepts that you believe keep you safe and make you happy. Only the release from these false beliefs can bring you true happiness and lasting peace.
David Hoffmeister
#41. It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting.
Maria Luisa Bombal
#42. My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#43. And he glanced down at Mercy beside him, and saw in her face such radiant goodness, such a calm certainty, that it seemed to him that if he could only be with her all his life, he should know a love, and happiness, and peace that he had never known before.
Edward Rutherfurd
#44. But in this life on earth we have not only the fear but the certainty that we shall lose it. For one day we must die. Therefore true happiness... lasting, everlasting happiness cannot be our lot on earth. Nor could it be otherwise. For everlasting happiness is only another name for God.
Louis De Wohl
#45. Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.
Wallis Simpson
#46. Everyone on this planet is a wonder of this world. Every one of us is a hero in some way or another. Every one of us has the potential for extraordinary achievement, happiness and lasting fulfillment.
Robin S. Sharma
#47. It's that short-lived happiness, which empowers us to bear; long-lasting pain in living.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#48. 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
#49. Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness
Dalai Lama
#50. For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.
S. N. Goenka
#51. All happiness is of a negative rather than positive nature, and for this reason cannot give lasting satisfaction and gratification, but rather only ever a release from a pain or lack, which must be followed either by a new pain or by languor, empty yearning and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#52. What causes misery is always trying to get away from the facts of life, always trying to avoid pain and seek happiness - this sense of ours that there could be lasting security and happiness available to us if we could only do the right thing.
Pema Chodron
#53. When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.
Simon Sinek
#54. Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
Herman Hesse
#55. Happiness is long-lasting, a condition of the soul, the foundation on which the circumstances of life are experienced, endured, or enjoyed.
Auliq Ice
#56. While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.
Dalai Lama
#57. But his doom 54: Reserv'd him to more wrath; for now the thought 55: Both of lost happiness and lasting pain 56: Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes 57: That witness'd huge affliction and dismay 58: Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:
John Milton
#58. Health, wealth, happiness,
live long and always prosper,
have families and also friends,
let them be lasting in me forever.
Toba Beta
