Quotes About Seeking Happiness

#1. Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.

Sharon Salzberg

#2. But if, through seeking happiness, my deeds are wrong, No matter where I turn my steps, The knives of misery will cut me down, The wage and retribution of a sinful life.

Santideva

#3. Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness ... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile ... Not a single one but has at some time wept.

H.G.Wells

#4. One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

Gautama Buddha

#5. Meditation ... puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness a more refined version of the problem you already have.

Sam Harris

#6. You know that saying 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? That's so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective.

Barbara Fredrickson

#7. Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you're seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

Dalai Lama

#8. Wanting help, I reached out to serve. Seeking happiness, I smiled and offered comfort. Yearning for love, I showed love. And now I understand. My life was never about me, it was always about you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Charles Baudelaire

#10. the Buddha whimsically pointed out that seeking happiness in one's material desires is as absurd as "suffering because a banana tree will not bear mangoes.

Rolf Potts

#11. We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life ...

Joko Beck

#12. The Ego uses the mind as a means of spiritual search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand what is beyond mind and forms. The mind in this way prepares the mental image of enlightenment, seeking, happiness etc.

Frank M. Wanderer

#13. All human beings are alike in seeking happiness. Where they differ is in the objects from which they seek it and the strength they have to reach the objects they desire.

Os Guinness

#14. I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

Goldie Hawn

#15. Where, then, lies the mistake, since all men crave the happy life? It is that they regard the means for producing happiness as happiness itself, and, while seeking happiness, they are really fleeing from it. For

Seneca.

#16. Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

Dale Carnegie

#17. In search for love, where love is some Oxytocin,seeking happiness related to Orexin. Sensations of glory, motivation and success, They are all some precious chemicals. Our mind is greedy, and falls into depression when he is no longer satisfied. LIFE IS A DRUG STORE WE ARE ALL JUNKIES.

Omar EL KADMIRI

#18. Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.

Robert Breault

#19. Instead of belittling, judging, or getting angry at others or at yourself, develop empathy for yourself and others. Remind yourself: Just like me, this person is seeking happiness in their life.

Kayla Moore

#20. Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

Pope Francis

#21. So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.

Dalai Lama

#22. Seeking happiness apart from a right relationship God is like trying to turn on a light that's unplugged.

Randy Alcorn

#23. We may believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity.

The School Of Life

#24. There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.

Saurabh Sharma

#25. In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each
is serving the others, seeking one another's good,
and bearing one another's burdens.

Henry Ward Beecher

#26. I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in relgion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is toward happiness ...

Dalai Lama XIV

#27. There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

Blaise Pascal

#28. Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty.

Auliq Ice

#29. Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#30. All the happiness, self-confidence, and support you're seeking is already within you.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#31. This world owes us nothing. Existence is not indebted to us. Humanity lives under this misconception that we deserve life's blessings, that we deserve happiness. But in truth, life owes us nothing

Kelseyleigh Reber

#32. I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others.

Albert Schweitzer

#33. Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

Ramana Maharshi

#34. If you want a positive and happy life then stop feeling self-pity or seeking attention for your problems and take action towards creating a positive and fulfilling life.

Hina Hashmi

#35. Seeking validation, inner peace, and happiness outside of yourself is like trying to find a bus to take you home when you're already at home. The only source of inner peace and happiness exists within you already.

Derek Doepker

#36. Where there is less pain, there is also less pay.

Auliq Ice

#37. The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. - Socrates

Leo Babauta

#38. When you are seeking love, from the distance, in silence, love is attracting you.

Debasish Mridha

#39. Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.

Frederick Lenz

#40. You cannot have everyone else's happiness in mind as well when you go out seeking your own. It's not as if what you wish to of with your life is going to take away anything from theirs.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

#41. Now the need for seeking something outside will completely disappear. Once you are blissful by your own nature, your life becomes an expression of your blissfulness, not a pursuit of happiness.

Sadhguru

#42. Seeking the kingdom of God leads to joy and happiness.

Allan F. Packer

#43. Every answer I seek lies within me. Any outward seeking for my answers can only take me as far as my inner self permits.

Pooja Ruprell

#44. Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i.e., seeking wealth or attractiveness or better colleagues, which is usually impractical), but in our daily intentional activities.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#45. May you find grace as you surrender to life. May you find happiness, as you stop seeking it. May you come to trust these laws and inherit the wisdom of the Earth. May you reconnect with the heart of nature and feel the blessings of Spirit.

Dan Millman

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. You'll earn more money doing something you love, rather than just doing something because it pays you a high salary.

Auliq Ice

#49. Don't let your ego put you in a compromising situation. Don't allow your pride to keep you from seeking the help you need. And don't give in to your fears. Stay focused.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#50. Alvin was an explorer, and all explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

Arthur C. Clarke

#51. Enlightenment is really worth seeking. It is the only thing that gives you permanent happiness. When you experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, everything is alright.

Frederick Lenz

#52. When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.

Augustine Of Hippo

#53. Life is not for seeking destination but for creating distinction.

Debasish Mridha

#54. Dear young people, the happiness you are seeking, the happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist. Only he gives the fullness of life to humanity! With Mary, say your own "yes" to God, for he wishes to give himself to you.

Pope Benedict XVI

#55. Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous.

David Lloyd-Jones

#56. Remember, the security and happiness you are seeking is not in your material possessions, your degrees, or relationships. It is much closer than you think.

Mabel Katz

#57. People enter different paths seeking for happiness and fulfillment. We must respect other people's individuality. Just because they're not on your path doesn't mean they are on the wrong track.

Ogwo David Emenike

#58. I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

Havelock Ellis

#59. I don't believe in the search. I believe in happiness now.

Marty Rubin

#60. The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#61. The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#62. A Speechmaker's Prayer:
"Let each word of mine be tender and sweet,
Just in case someone might make me eat it.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#63. The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.

Ramesh S Balsekar

#64. Don't seek to be happy; let everyone else chase after that rainbow.
Seek to be kind, and you'll find the rainbow follows you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#65. It's time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.

Iyanla Vanzant

#66. There are many ways to achieve developer happiness, but making your core business products a playground for developers seeking novelty is the path to hell.

Anonymous

#67. Robbing ourselves of the great pleasures in life only makes us perform worse. We need to be happy, and do things we like doing if we want to excel in whatever it is we're focusing on.

Torron-Lee Dewar

#68. It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Max Planck

#69. 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

#70. He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

Gautama Buddha

#71. Even the darkest cloud had a silver lining; you can either miss it as you run away to a hiding place as darkness approaches you or you can go seeking it, empowered with the ardent desire to find happiness in life.

Maliny Mohan

#72. I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness, or my family, or the love of my life. That's a mistake. And I think a lot of people make that mistake, they're always kind of, like, seeking out the next thing that's gonna happen.

Summer Phoenix

#73. If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness.

Caitlin Thomas

#74. The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Theodor Reik

#75. Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

Eckhart Tolle

#76. Devotion to God brings great delight.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#77. All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others.

Shantideva

#78. 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

#79. Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Aristotle.

#80. O Lord, only you can satisfy my soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#81. The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

Jaggi Vasudev

#82. When you are seeking love, love is seeking you.

Debasish Mridha

#83. Do what you feel is right without seeking approval.

Debasish Mridha

#84. When desire flows,
Pleasure arises.
Attached to happiness, seeking enjoyment,
People are subject to birth and old age.

Gautama Buddha

#85. Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart.

Goswami Kriyananda

#86. The gold you have to dig for is not the real gold.

Marty Rubin

#87. Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.

Marianne Williamson

#88. It's easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well.

Auliq Ice

#89. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road does not mean they have gotten lost.

Jackson Browne

#90. Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

Andrew Lang

#91. A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

David Guerrero

#92. As man is so constituted that it is utterly impossible for him to attain happiness save by seeking the happiness of others, so does it seem to be of the nature of things that individuals and classes can obtain their own just rights only by struggling for the rights of others.

Henry George

#93. In every man, there were two beings: one the spiritual, seeking only that kind of happiness for him self which should tend towards the happiness of all; the other, the animal man, seeking only his own happiness, and ready to sacrifice to it the happiness of the rest of the world.

Leo Tolstoy

#94. Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#95. I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in that religion or this religion, we are all seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness ...

Dalai Lama XIV

#96. 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