Top 74 Search For Happiness Quotes
#1. The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.
D.H. Lawrence
#2. Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms?
Robert Muller
#3. Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
Bob Marley
#4. I don't believe in happiness anyway ... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.
Frank McCourt
#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. This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync with God is about obedience. Any other pursuit will get in the way.
Franklin Graham
#7. Don't give up the search for happiness because you're afraid of getting hurt.
Martha Raye
#8. A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person who has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule.
Scott Adams
#9. My search for happiness ends at your Smiling Face because I know, nothing else in the world can make me Happier.
Anmol Rawat
#10. Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.
Nikolaus Lenau
#11. The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.
Emil Cioran
#12. The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain.
Paulo Coelho
#13. The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.
Paulo Coelho
#14. The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.
Lee L Jampolsky
#15. One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.
Robert Breault
#16. On that search for happiness we did nothing with all those other emotions that made us human.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#17. When you search for happiness, it flies away.
When you serve others, you will find the way.
When you share blessings and express kindness,
You will find the source of enduring happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#18. More young people are volunteering than ever before. More people are including service to others on their busy lives' to do list. The promise of America is embedded deep in our DNA, calling us to a much less shallow search for happiness and meaning.
Arianna Huffington
#19. The more you strive and search for happiness, the more you overlook the possibility that it is here already.
Robert Holden
#20. In the mid-1600s, Puritan John Gibbon said, "God alone is enough, but without him, nothing [is enough] for thy happiness."[218] Whether or not we're conscious of it, since God is the fountainhead of happiness, the search for happiness is always the search for God.
Randy Alcorn
#21. We tend to search for happiness and love forgetting that both can be found when we stop searching for sadness and hate.
Hisham Fawzi
#22. If the search for happiness is the underlying quest of our lives, it seems only natural that it should simultaneously be the essential theme to which beauty alludes.
Alain De Botton
#23. We can continue our quest for improvement or not. We can search for happiness, enlightenment, security or identity or not. The search is not wrong; it is unrelated to the actual world.
Steven Harrison
#24. My isolation is not a search for happiness, which I do not have the heart to win, nor for peace, which one finds only when it will never more be lost; what I seek is sleep, extinction, a small surrender.
Fernando Pessoa
#25. This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.
Clayton Christensen
#26. In the search for happiness, However, We r all equal; None of us is Happy - Not the Banker/Actors/Actresses/Politician/Housewife/Model/Doctor and so on.
Avinash Advani
#27. Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.
Hedi Slimane
#28. Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.
Paulo Coelho
#29. The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.
Robert Breault
#30. Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#31. Happiness is that butterfly which comes and sit in your garden until you try to grab it, The moment we try to grab it, it flies off, so never try to grab it, just let it go, because it will come back again for search of honey and to give you happiness again.
Debolina Bhawal
#32. I don't think I'm qualified to answer questions about happiness. But I guess I'd say that I don't think you ever get to put to bed something like a search for order, or any other element of your sensibility, however much you'd like to.
Garth Greenwell
#33. Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#34. Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it ... a contented spirit.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#35. You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.
Christopher Pike
#36. I show people the techniques for gaining knowledge, and this inspires them in their search for truth, freedom and happiness. I also try to show people that truth exists as much in this world as it does in any other world.
Frederick Lenz
#37. I wanted a way back to swings and slides and simplicity. A way back to when a butterfly could cheer me up, and a series of puddles could make my day. A way back to a time when happiness wasn't something I had to search for ... it just was
Cora Carmack
#38. I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.
Akiane Kramarik
#39. Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.
Rebecca West
#40. Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind.
Pablo
#41. A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.
Mahatma Gandhi
#42. The journey of growth, search for the secret has always been within, the simpler we make it, the better it gets.
Rob Martin
#43. If you want good luck; you must go out there and search for that luck!! Because luck is waiting for you to look for it.
Temitope Owosela
#44. Peace is bald eagle
Flying and flying over the trees
In search for a spot
Under the blue sky
To build her nest to care.
Debasish Mridha
#45. Happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment, joy, love ... All these things work the same way. The more you search for them, the less likely you are to find them.
Patrick Rhone
#47. In life, we always search outside for unimportant things and ignore the most important things, which are inside us.
Debasish Mridha
#48. The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
Marguerite Duras
#49. Real joy, the kind that permeates your life and brings contentment to your soul comes from service. So no, happiness is not the word. Purpose. Contentment. Joy. To find those things, don't seek happiness. Search instead for those who need your gift and give it away.
Mia Sheridan
#50. The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#51. We are all part of some cosmic pattern, and this pattern works toward good and not evil. It builds and does not destroy. So I shall go on in my search for a race where I can find kinship and happiness.
Henry Kuttner
#52. Love sustains us in our challenges, in our search for truth, in our quest for happiness.
Jerry L. Ainsworth
#53. True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him ... It is mans innate nature that he seeks to preserve and to strengthen his life, that he is discontented and aims at removing uneasiness, that he is in search of what may be called happiness.
Ludwig Von Mises
#54. Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job.
Nikki Rowe
#55. Happiness isn't something you have to search for in life. Happiness is a way of life you choose to have.
Javy Galindo
#56. By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.
Sharon Salzberg
#57. Where do we find happiness? We pursue it, search for it, kill ourselves trying to find it, and all the time it's just here ... It comes just when we've stopped expecting anything, stopped hoping, stopped being afraid.
Irene Nemirovsky
#58. Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#59. Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that sober connection
intimacy with one person over a long period of time, as opposed to periods of intimacy with a bunch of random faces.
Jess C. Scott
#60. Desires move us from one station to another in this life while we search for beauty, love, and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#61. The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.
Shannon L. Alder
#62. Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#63. 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
#64. Money won't buy you happiness, but it'll pay for the search
Prince
#65. Life is a dream; life is a journey. Life is a miracle, a search for destiny.
Debasish Mridha
#66. For nothing bestializes a being like the taste for eternal happiness, the search for eternal happiness at any price, and mademoiselle Lucifer is that slut who never wanted to abandon eternal happiness.
Antonin Artaud
#69. My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.
Seth Godin
#70. I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
Ai Weiwei
#71. 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
#72. It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.
Walker Percy
#73. You will never find happiness if you search for it because it can only be experienced in the here and now.
Lynette Robinson
#74. Happiness in something you need to search for, It comes from inside. You can pull it out from inside by satisfaction and acceptance.
Vijay Dhameliya
