Top 100 Seek Happiness Quotes
#1. Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.
Peter Deunov
#2. If you seek happiness, look in the mirror. If you seek love, look elsewhere.
Thomas F. Shubnell
#3. Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Holbrook Jackson
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness
Eckhart Tolle
#7. Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.
Confucius
#9. When you SEEK HAPPINESS for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for OTHERS, you will find it yourself.
Wayne Dyer
#10. 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.
#11. 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
#12. Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.
Robert Breault
#13. We tend to Seek Happiness when Happiness is actually a Choice
Rodney White
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
William S. Burroughs
#18. 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
#19. 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
#21. 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
#22. Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.
Gregg Easterbrook
#23. The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
Thomas Huxley
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.
Paul Claudel
#30. The more you seek happiness the more you lost your patient and leads you to unhappy state.
Prasanna Sahoo
#31. 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
#32. If the purpose of your life is to seek happiness, you will be happy even if you are not a success.
Debasish Mridha
#33. One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.
Coco Chanel
#34. All people should know that the principal business in life is to seek happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#35. Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#37. 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
#38. Relinquishing the delusional hope that we can or must be flawless - allows us to seek happiness in the only place it can be found: our real, messy, imperfect experience.
Martha N. Beck
#39. The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson
#40. All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions ... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.
Blaise Pascal
#41. We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.
Pema Chodron
#42. Learn lots. Don't judge. Laugh for no reason. Be nice. Seek happiness.
Sean Plott
#43. One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.
Zicheng Hong
#44. Everybody has secrets, everybody lies, and everybody cheats their way through life for self-fulfillment. We wouldn't do it if we felt sorry; we do it because it's our human right to seek happiness.
E.K. Blair
#45. Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
David Levithan
#46. We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.
Dalai Lama
#47. 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. Remember my words, for although I shall talk with you again, not only my days but my hours are numbered.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#48. The Stoics say, " Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise Pascal
#49. Truth and reread it daily: "When you seek happiness for yourself it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for others you will find it yourself." Practice making meaningful
Wayne W. Dyer
#50. How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?
Theodore Dalrymple
#51. 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
#52. Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Tryon Edwards
#53. 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
#55. While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
John Calvin
#56. 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
#58. I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.
Blaise Pascal
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#65. Having a loving relationship with our spouse or with our children is what leads to the long-term happiness we all seek.
Clayton Christensen
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#71. If we seek the most happiness we can as individuals, it sort of bleeds into other people's lives.
Tyler Blackburn
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
Bertrand Russell
#77. 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
#78. To be yourself, don't seek permission, create yourself endlessly.
Debasish Mridha
#79. Life expands when you dare and share. Life shrinks when you seek consistency and fear.
Debasish Mridha
#80. 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.
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. SEEK THE ADVENTURES OF THE HEART. THEY LEAD YOU TO ETERNAL BLISS!
Helen Heinmiller
#88. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.
John Waters
#89. We seek goals as if their achievement will grant magical happiness and unending fulfillment, but is that ever the case?
R.A. Salvatore
#90. You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy.
Leon Brown
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Don't seek permission from others, be yourself, live your life.
Debasish Mridha
#95. To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony
Ilyas Kassam
#96. Seek the joy and beauty of life to find the opportunity in life.
Debasish Mridha
#97. Sometimes happiness comes to us. But usually you have to seek it out.
Mark T. Sullivan
#98. We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
B.C. Forbes
#99. 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
#100. If you're loving and kind then you have no need to seek love because love will seek you.
Debasish Mridha
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