Quotes About Not Looking For Happiness

#1. 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.

#2. As an old man ... looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about ... is suffering, affliction.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#6. I think, if he did it, it was just desperation. Because looking at her, I know she's my yellow. She's the happiness inside of me.

J.M. Darhower

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.

Alessandra Torre

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. The art of happiness is being content with what you have,' she would say, looking with apparent satisfaction out of the dusty windows at the garden, yellowing like an uncut hayfield in the October sunshine.

Philippa Gregory

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Joyce Meyer

#16. You have to keep looking on the bright, because you'll never find anything in the dark.

Zack W. Van

#17. 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

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

Debra Beck

#19. 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

#20. People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

Hugh Laurie

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Emmet Fox

#25. 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.

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. Laugh as if it's funny, embrace as if it's love, and smile anyway.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#29. 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

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

Alberto Giacometti

#31. 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

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

Mandy Hale

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

Debasish Mridha

#34. Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

Alexandre Dumas

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

Barbara De Angelis

#36. You find love, not by looking, but by giving away.

Debasish Mridha

#37. Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life.

Frederick Lenz

#38. 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

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

Gabrielle Bernstein

#40. 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

#41. You will find the peace, not by looking outside, but by changing your thoughts, feelings and perception inside.

Debasish Mridha

#42. 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

#43. 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

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

Robert Breault

#45. 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

#46. Happiness is simply a habit of looking on the brighter side of everything.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Debasish Mridha

#48. Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

Sissela Bok

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#50. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#52. Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?

William Steig

#53. 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

#54. I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.

Queen Latifah

#55. Don't pursue happiness!
Life is as short as a sigh.
The dust of people that were once famous
turn with the reddish clay on the wheel you are
looking at. The universe is a fata morgana;
life is a dream.

Omar Khayyam

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

Hamza Yusuf

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

Mickey Rooney

#58. 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

#59. 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

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

James Oppenheim

#61. he almost never spoke about himself, in my hearing at least: though once, shortly after his marriage, when he brought his wife to lunch with me, he said...looking at her across the grassy quadrangle, 'I never expected to have, in my sixties, the happiness that passed me by in my twenties.

Jocelyn Gibb

#62. It's odd to suddenly discover you're happy right in the middle of a moment. Usually, you don't recognize happiness until it's over and you're looking back on it.

Wodke Hawkinson

#63. Happiness is found when no one is looking

Lauren Oliver

#64. We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

Emma Thompson

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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