Quotes About Looking For Happiness

#1. One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute whazzaam, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as a rabbit, let me tell you. You want grass and sex, not thoughts like What's it all about, when you get right down to it?

Terry Pratchett

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

Gabrielle Bernstein

#3. If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.

Hamza Yusuf

#4. Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.

Mickey Rooney

#5. The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.

James Oppenheim

#6. Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.

Nicole Kidman

#8. Looking for happiness in the body, mind or world is like looking for the screen in a movie. The screen doesn't appear in the movie, and yet, at the same time, all that is seen in the movie is the screen. In the same way that the screen 'hides' in plain view, so happiness 'hides' in all experience.

Rupert Spira

#9. When I was your age ... I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters.

Ilene Beckerman

#10. Be happy while you are looking for happiness because our purpose of life is to be happy.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present.

Barbara Barrington Jones

#12. I have to find a way of making myself happy, I have to stop looking for happiness elsewhere. It's true,

Paula Hawkins

#13. If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

Nick Vujicic

#14. Imagine that you traveled all over the world, looking for happiness, looking for thrills to pass the time. Imagine seeing everything there is to see and still not finding happiness. Well, that would give you a very bleak outlook on life, would it not?

Tricia Levenseller

#15. You will meet happiness on your way if you just stop looking for happiness desperately! Live your life without looking for anything!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

Nhat Hanh

#17. If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

Zig Ziglar

#18. When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?

Oprah Winfrey

#19. The best thing about a heartbreak, you start looking for happiness elsewhere. You realize like wild flowers, happiness can grow anywhere and everywhere. And, most importantly within you.
Be wild, dear heart, happiness awaits you.

Saru Singhal

#20. What are we all looking for? Happiness? One knows that doesn't last. Distraction, perhaps distraction from the ugly facts: that there is death, there is disease, there is impotence and senility ahead

David Lodge

#21. Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#22. there will be no road too long as we are looking for happiness

Jan Jansen

#23. Finding the happiness within is difficult but looking for happiness outside is futile.

Debasish Mridha

#24. When you are looking for love, then
love is spreading its net to catch you.

Debasish Mridha

#25. Happiness is your inherent nature. In the hustle and bustle of life, you have forgotten a part of yourself, and looking for it outside. Fill this void with happiness that is sustainable, not transitory; that illuminates your life and that of others, that is life giving and so natural.

Sanchita Pandey

#26. What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#27. When I am looking for you, then in silence, your every atom is longing for me.

Debasish Mridha

#28. One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

Robert Breault

#29. Oh! Happiness
I am looking for you
In the wilderness,
In and around the palaces,
In my possessions, in my wealth and splendor, I can see you far away,
Like an illusion,
I try to touch feel and smell but,
Like a morichica you dance far away.

Debasish Mridha

#30. Well Buddhism, 'shmoodism', I didn't go to India looking for Buddhism. I was looking for truth, or God, or a better way of life or happiness, fulfillment, meaning, purpose. And a way to become peace in the world and not just fight for peace, as we had in the 60's.

Surya Das

#31. The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

Mel Gibson

#32. I had to get comfortable with uncomfortable thoughts, worry, and doubt. To expect uncompromised happiness was as unreasonable as looking for solutions at the bottom of a bowl of ice cream.

Kelsey Miller

#33. An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness and all the lofty promises a blue canary can sing about. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath of the heady morning air. Looking within myself, I searched for the man I once was.

Cheryl R Cowtan

#34. Can you hold happiness? Can you drink it? Can you taste it? Can you touch it? Of course not, it is immaterial. So, stop looking for it in the material world! Happiness is experienced within; when we bridge the gap between what we want to experience and how we choose to behave.

Steve Maraboli

#35. There'll be no more big powers and oppressed poor - only fairness and justice for all, and eternal happiness. So if you're looking for the perfect city and the perfect government in the perfect country with perfect people, just wait a little while longer - it's coming

David Berg

#36. I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

Simon Cowell

#37. I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.

Denis O'Hare

#38. Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

Erich Fromm

#39. Looking outside of yourself for love and acceptance, leaves your happiness in the hands of others.

Debra Beck

#40. The one thing everybody's looking for is unconditional love. We all need somebody to love us just the way we are

Joyce Meyer

#41. My love for you spans over the lines of my past, present, and future. You are what I love remembering, what I love experiencing, and what I love looking forward to.

Steve Maraboli

#42. live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day. Anna's

Mark T. Sullivan

#43. There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

Karisma Kapoor

#44. We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one

Voltaire

#45. If you are looking for love, you may not find it, but if you love every one for sure, they will return it.

Debasish Mridha

#46. You're born with the power of love, why you are looking for power of destruction?

Debasish Mridha

#47. Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will may enter.

Ernest Holmes

#48. In the wilderness of life
Happiness is looking for you
In the jungles of dreams and desires,
In the beauty of shrubs and flowers,
In the span of sadness and kindness.
In the deepness of hearts and minds.

Debasish Mridha

#49. When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

Barbara De Angelis

#50. Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are ... and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.

Mandy Hale

#51. Advice for a human.
81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being.
82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

Matt Haig

#52. I've just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would lead to happiness. But the tunnel kept going on. After my death there will be nothing left.

Aristotle Onassis

#53. I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.

Constance Renfrow

#54. In spite of what we say, we don't want happiness. It's simply not enough to satisfy our deepest longings. We are looking for something more, something transcendent - a reason to be happy.

Jeff Goins

#55. You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

Willie Nelson

#56. A Dream can be in Our Mind the Happiness we are Looking for.

Jan Jansen

#57. When you're looking for something, you will find it.

Debasish Mridha

#58. What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.

Alberto Giacometti

#59. Try not to be self-conscious [ ... ] or so critical. Don't mope around looking for someone else to make you happy, and remember that the vast majority of homosexuals are looking for a superman to love and find it very difficult to love anyone merely human, which we unfortunately happen to be.

Andrew Holleran

#60. Life is not a maze where you have your eyes on the gaps, life is a beautiful journey, stop looking for the gaps.

Malti Bhojwani

#61. Fail big. Fail better.
Try again. Without looking for a shelter.

Debasish Mridha

#62. Our spirit is always in peace but our ego is looking for war, so calm the ego and love the spirit forever.

Debasish Mridha

#63. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus

#64. True happiness comes from within. When we stop looking for social proof and trust in ourselves, a certain magic happens. You are the most important person in your life, and, we are one.

Tony Williams

#65. The key to lasting happiness is to stop looking for it, and to know that you already have it.

Deepak Chopra

#66. All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

#67. As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.

Walter Savage Landor

#68. If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.

Daniel Willey

#69. In order to really find happiness, you need to continue looking for opportunities that you believe are meaningful, in which you will be able to learn new things, to succeed, and be given more and more responsibility to shoulder.

Clayton M Christensen

#70. When you're looking for success
Never forget to live in happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#71. I'm p-paralyzed with happiness. - She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#72. If you are looking for true happiness, you have to change your level of consciousness and deepness of awareness.

Debasish Mridha

#73. Who could ever reckon up the damage done to love and friendship and all hopes of happiness by a surfeit or depletion of this or that neurotransmitter? And who will ever find a morality, an ethics down among the enzymes and amino acids when the general taste is for looking in the other direction?

Ian McEwan

#74. The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#75. I too hope you find everything in life you're looking for - freedom, happiness, and perhaps a little integrity. Best,

Jake Wells

#76. The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Doug Larson

#77. Young people are looking for meaning and happiness to accompany their first paycheque. Inspire Your Career provides career advice designed to help you find more than just material success. Through its empowering and practical lessons, readers will find inspiration as they embark on their careers.

Marc Kielburger

#78. You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.

Jay McInerney

#79. Have you ever thought; whilst looking all this time for the magic in the world, it's been inside you all along? No matter how far you travel, how wide you spread your wings and learn to fly if you have no idea what treasures hide within you you'll be searching your entire life.

Nikki Rowe

#80. We are the source of infinite love, infinite joy, and infinite happiness, but we spend our whole life looking for love, joy and happiness. How foolish is this?

Debasish Mridha

#81. There's a void inside most people.
It's been created by not being contented with who we are, not being happy with what we have, not being present and looking for something more, better, more exciting out there.
And we've always been trying to fill this void with something external.

Lidiya K.

#82. I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

Jennifer Weiner

#83. If you are looking to outer, passing, mutable things for either happiness or security, you are not putting God first.

Emmet Fox

#84. We said to him: here is your happiness, here is what you spent your whole youth looking for, here is the girl you saw in all your dreams!
How could anyone, pushed by the shoulders like that, avoid a reaction of indecision, then fear, then dismay--how could he resist the temptation to escape?

Alain-Fournier

#85. When we chase happiness externally, we're simply looking for God in all the wrong places.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#86. We find what we are looking for in life, her father had once said to her, which was true
if you look for happiness, you will see it; if you look for distrust and envy and hatred
all those things
you will find those too.

Alexander McCall Smith

#87. Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

Goswami Kriyananda

#88. When we are looking for opportunity, we should keep in mind that life itself is an opportunity.

Debasish Mridha

#89. Love is looking for you when you are looking for love.

Debasish Mridha

#90. When you're looking for me, I am hiding in your heart, just find me with your light.

Debasish Mridha

#91. All I will say is we get wiser as we get older. And that what I am looking for in life is the same as I always have; happiness, peacefulness and joy. And that's all I'm going to say about that because otherwise I'd get into trouble

George Clooney

#92. Happiness is what you trample over when you are looking for it

Eric Amidi

#93. Sometimes we miss happy because we're always looking for something else. We worry, we give in to fear, we compare ourselves to others, we're planning and plotting, but happiness is here, it's a choice, day to day.

Cathy Lamb

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

Alan Gibbons

#95. Instead of looking outside for happiness, become the well of happiness within and share it with others instead.

Franklin Gillette

#96. And it's true what I read about joy. It's the kind of happiness that not only fills you up but spills over. Really, all you have to do is look for it, and then have the strength to let it in. And believe it or not, that's the hardest part.

Jolene Perry

#97. Abundance is about looking at life and knowing that you have everything you need for complete happiness, and then being able to celebrate each and every moment on earth.

Wayne Dyer

#98. she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it.

Louise Penny

#99. Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness ... the door is open and unlocked ... just walk through it.

Steve Maraboli

#100. He kept looking for new experiences, and though he was very successful at everything he attempted, it did not bring him happiness. Remember this, success alone does not bring happiness. Nor does failure have to bring unhappiness.

Rohinton Mistry