Top 100 Seek Happiness Quotes
#1. 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
#3. While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
John Calvin
#4. Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.
Peter Deunov
#5. Desire happiness, aspire to gratitude, long for health, crave compassion, seek satisfaction, lust after God, however & whatever you perceive God to be, want to love yourself, others & everything around you more and more each day
Peter McWilliams
#7. If you seek happiness, look in the mirror. If you seek love, look elsewhere.
Thomas F. Shubnell
#8. I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.
Blaise Pascal
#9. Too much stress cannot be laid ... upon the admonition that we seek so far as possible to live in the lives of other people. By sharing in the misfortunes of others, and rejoicing in their happiness, you add to your own emotional serenity and stability.
Ralph Alfred Habas
#10. Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Holbrook Jackson
#11. By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
#12. Christ is with you. Do not abandon Him and He will not abandon you. You will see great sorrow, and in that sorrow you will be happy. This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness. Work, work unceasingly.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#13. Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
Mary Shelley
#14. I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence.
Jhonen Vasquez
#15. The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love ...
Mechthild Of Magdeburg
#18. Having a loving relationship with our spouse or with our children is what leads to the long-term happiness we all seek.
Clayton Christensen
#19. And what else is it that men seek in life but power? If they want money, it is but for the power that attends it, and it is power again that they strive for in all the knowledge they acquire. Fools and sots aim at happiness, but men aim only at power.
W. Somerset Maugham
#20. Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness
Eckhart Tolle
#21. 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
#22. Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind ... Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.
Leo Tolstoy
#25. Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.
Confucius
#26. If we seek the most happiness we can as individuals, it sort of bleeds into other people's lives.
Tyler Blackburn
#27. The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.
Dalai Lama XIV
#28. True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy.
Thomas Merton
#29. When you SEEK HAPPINESS for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for OTHERS, you will find it yourself.
Wayne Dyer
#30. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#31. The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
-The Crone's Eyes
Kate Morton
#32. 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.
#33. The trouble with us is that we try to find happiness where it does not exist, in transient, impermanent things; we try to find it in the gratification of desire; we seek it in animal pleasure. Happiness lives in giving, in doing, not in getting, in grasping.
Orison Swett Marden
#34. Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
Bertrand Russell
#35. Seek happiness now within you. Don't look anywhere else or for anyone to help bring that happiness to your life. Happiness comes as a reward of battles we win. Happiness will come from the will to be strong minded and the readiness to face the next challenge with a smile.
Sal Martinez
#36. 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
#37. To be yourself, don't seek permission, create yourself endlessly.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.
Robert Breault
#39. Life expands when you dare and share. Life shrinks when you seek consistency and fear.
Debasish Mridha
#40. We tend to Seek Happiness when Happiness is actually a Choice
Rodney White
#42. Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle.
#43. There should always be a balance in life, and you must try to find that in yours. Then you might find the happiness you seek.
Lucinda Riley
#44. Life is all about being in the labyrinth just to seek happiness but the only way to escape it is to stop and wait what's next in this line
Bianca Agoncillo
#45. No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
John Calvin
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
William S. Burroughs
#49. A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#50. 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
#51. To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.
Jean Giraudoux
#52. SEEK THE ADVENTURES OF THE HEART. THEY LEAD YOU TO ETERNAL BLISS!
Helen Heinmiller
#53. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.
John Waters
#54. We seek goals as if their achievement will grant magical happiness and unending fulfillment, but is that ever the case?
R.A. Salvatore
#55. You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy.
Leon Brown
#56. Joy is what we all seek. It is an energy more powerful than food. But without love we can not feel true joy.
Akiane Kramarik
#57. Confucius says: 'Many seek happiness higher than man; others beneath him. But happiness is the
same height as man.' That is true. So there must be a happiness to suit every man's stature.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#58. Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
Leo Tolstoy
#59. The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
Ramana Maharshi
#60. 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
#61. Don't seek permission from others, be yourself, live your life.
Debasish Mridha
#63. To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony
Ilyas Kassam
#64. He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson
#65. Seek the joy and beauty of life to find the opportunity in life.
Debasish Mridha
#66. Sometimes happiness comes to us. But usually you have to seek it out.
Mark T. Sullivan
#67. Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.
Gregg Easterbrook
#68. The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
Thomas Huxley
#69. We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
B.C. Forbes
#70. We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.
Dalai Lama
#71. I accept everyone as a friend. In truth, we already know one another, profoundly, as human beings who share the same basic goals: We all seek happiness and do not want suffering.
Dalai Lama XIV
#72. If you're loving and kind then you have no need to seek love because love will seek you.
Debasish Mridha
#73. As a being and life form, all of mankind must seek the absolute sunshine of being. To do otherwise is to deny the essence of life; which is growth in body mind and soul. These in turn reflects Self love.
Auliq Ice
#74. Seek God, not happiness - this is the fundamental rule of all meditation. If you seek God alone, you will gain happiness: that is its promise.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#75. No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.
Lynn Coady
#76. The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.
Shannon L. Alder
#77. Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body;
Aristotle.
#78. he is old enough now to know happiness for what it is: brief and fleeting, not a state to strive for, to seek to live in, but to catch when it comes, and to hold on to for as long as you can.
Laura Barnett
#79. 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
#80. I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.
Lydia Lunch
#81. Happiness! It is useless to seek it elsewhere than in this warmth of human relations. Our sordid interests imprison us within their walls. Only a comrade can grasp us by the hand and haul us free.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#83. Most people are resentful of the happiness of others and yet we seem to seek validation from others in order to allow our own happiness ... it's easy to see the problem with this system.
Steve Maraboli
#84. 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
#85. I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search.
Frederick Lenz
#86. Do we seek happiness because we're sinners or because we're human? Should faith in God be dragged forward by duty or propelled by delight? Must we choose between holiness and happiness? Much
Randy Alcorn
#87. Those who seek happiness in pleasure, wealth, glory, power, and heroics are as naive as the child who tries to catch a rainbow and wear it as a coat. DILGO KHYENTSE RINPOCHE
Matthieu Ricard
#88. Seek a life full of love; you will find a life with abundance and love.
Debasish Mridha
#89. The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others.
Dalai Lama
#90. We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.
Paul Claudel
#91. We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.
Jean De La Bruyere
#92. I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.
Nina Berberova
#93. Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.
Julian Baggini
#94. Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
James Anthony Froude
#95. What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#96. If you seek God as the nonnegotiable good of your life, you will get happiness thrown in. If, however, you aim mainly at personal happiness, you will get neither.
Timothy J. Keller
#97. A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#98. The more you seek happiness the more you lost your patient and leads you to unhappy state.
Prasanna Sahoo
#99. I do not seek to derive my happiness from the injury or the favor of others, but earn it by my own achievement. Just
Ayn Rand
#100. Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
Sam Harris
