Top 100 State Of Happiness Quotes
#1. Most people are always doubtful as to whether they are happy or not, cheerful or not. This is the normal state of happiness, as doubt is a most natural thing.
Yukio Mishima
#2. If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.
Baltasar Gracian
#3. ...Past joys and achievements give us the outlines of how to get to a state of happiness again. That memory is a treasure that can never be taken away. At least we know where we were, what we have lost, what we miss and what more to add to our experiences.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#4. For those who trust in the Divine all things are moving towards an everlasting state of happiness, and no matter what happens at any time to them, it contributes to that state.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#5. Love is just a word we use to describe what boils down to a selfish and temporary state of happiness.
Sara Zarr
#6. truly good life is defined not by the material things we try to fill ourselves with but by the spiritual and emotional things that we are already filled with. These things lead to a constant state of happiness.
Adam Houge
#7. Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life.
Ellen J. Barrier
#8. There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great Misconception.
Tarek Saab
#9. Your state of consciousness defines your state of mind and your state of happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#10. When you are in touch with the Inner Being then
irrespective of the outer state, you remain in a perpetual state of happiness!
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#11. But I am king. And the well-being of my kingdom depends on my sound judgment and clear head. And those things depend on my state of happiness. And I have known for a long time that my state of happiness depends on you.
Sharon Shinn
#13. The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.
Carl Jung
#14. What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
Chris Prentiss
#15. When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
Suze Orman
#16. Do you press the "pause" button - the "until" button in life by saying "I can't be happy until ... "? All this accomplishes is a delay in your entry into your innate state of happiness, which is independent of outer circumstances. So press the "play" button and rejoice in the now-ness of the moment!
Michael Beckwith
#17. By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.
Benjamin Franklin
#18. You must maintain a state of happiness, state of joy to let the positive thoughts emanate from your mind.. If you are in a state of joy, your thoughts emanate positive energy, and you can influence others without much efforts.
Girdhar Joshi
#19. A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.
Aristotle.
#20. Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.
Claude M. Bristol
#21. We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is a natural outcome of a state of being; that the state of being is the important thing; that a man can be a carpenter and be a great man.
Robert Henri
#22. True Happiness is a state of the mind. Things that we acquire can make us momentarily happy but will not give us true freedom from our unhappiness.
Matthew Donnelly
#23. The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love and happiness and overlooks the other aspects of child-rearing: the exhaustion, frustration, loneliness, and even depression, with its attendant state of guilt.
Elisabeth Badinter
#24. My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.
Charlotte Eriksson
#25. Happiness is created and not found, it's a state of mind and in its best form, it stands independent of life circumstances.
Jaeda DeWalt
#26. Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.
Walt Disney
#27. Affection is the source of self-confidence, happiness, security, and a comfortable mental state.
Amanda Mosher
#28. God has called 'chit prasannta' (blissful state of chit) as happiness. Even when someone swears at you, picks your pocket; the 'chit prasannta' doesn't go away! Even at two o'clock in the morning, the 'chit prasannta' does not go away.
Dada Bhagwan
#29. The world is perfect, and at the same time, it is in a constant state of unfolding. This is also true for you and me. Our quest for enlightenment is really just a re-connection with something that already exists in us.
Victor Shamas
#31. He decayed in a state of gentle happiness.
Manu Joseph
#32. When we meditate, we go beyond the swirl of thoughts, memories and emotions that tend to keep us stuck in our ego's story of who we are. We enter an expanded state of awareness and discover our own inner fountain of joy, a source of happiness that isn't dependent on anyone or anything.
Deepak Chopra
#33. There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.
Douglas Fairbanks
#34. I believe we forget who we are over time, and in our state of forgetfulness we struggle and employ all kinds of learned behaviors that don't necessarily help us or bring us happiness. Each of us has a self that exists undamaged and whole, from the moment we are born waiting to be reclaimed.
Jewel
#35. A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#36. Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison.
Zadie Smith
#37. Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive
coming perhaps once in a life-time
and approaching ectasy.
Daphne Du Maurier
#38. People say a mother is only as happy as her least happy child. But what if the state of that child's happiness has become a mystery? What if that child is no longer a child but a young man who has removed himself to a great distance and encased himself in silence?
Jan Ellison
#39. The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
William H. Seward
#40. Authentic happiness lies in your state of perspective and not all about the state of your income. Real happiness runs deep from within and does not just walk on shallow waters.- Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#41. For what it's worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent state of goddamn mind. I've learned that if you chase after moments of bliss here and there, sometimes those moments will sustain you through the shit.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#42. If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
Oliver Goldsmith
#43. The awful truth was that Jim was happy: not in some bland, superficial way - fixed Kodak smiles under the bluest of skies - but in his deepest self. This kind of happiness was less a state, he realised, than a form of honesty: a sense of essential rightness.
Laura Barnett
#44. Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
Matthieu Ricard
#45. Happiness is an awareness, perception, feeling, and imagination. Happiness is a state of mind not a condition.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation.
William Herbert Sheldon
#47. Happiness isn't a state, it's a skill. It's the skill of knowing how to take what life throws your way and make the most of it.
Gary Null
#48. There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another.
Alexandre Dumas
#49. Happiness is absolutely a feeling and a state of well-being, but the key to happiness is understanding that it is created through action.
Kristi Ling
#50. Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that you're in.
Frederick Lenz
#51. If war is the health of the state, despair is the health of religion. Until African workers and peasants find belief systems that provides them with real hope of happiness in the here and now, they will continue to grasp at religion's false hope of happiness in the hereafter.
Anonymous
#52. Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#53. Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.
Deepak Chopra
#54. While Nice is just a place in France, happiness will always be a foreign state of mind. But fuck it. Let's rage.
The Betches
#55. Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.
Dalai Lama XIV
#56. A substantial amount of research over the past decade has reinforced the idea that although internal happiness can deviate from its "resting state" in reaction to life events, it usually returns toward its baseline over time.
Dan Ariely
#57. Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded; it is a liberty available to anyone.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#58. I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.
Hugh Laurie
#59. My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
D.H. Lawrence
#60. Happiness is a state of mind, not the condition we find.
Debasish Mridha
#61. Happiness is a temporary chemical imbalance of the true state of mind.
Drew Hayes
#62. Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being that has achieved cross-level coherence within herself, and between herself and the people, challenges, and institutions around her. Happiness comes from between.
Jonathan Haidt
#63. Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.
Ruskin Bond
#64. Enlightenment, the great mysterious state of mind, is contentment, or freedom from suffering. How then do we measure happiness? We measure it in smiles, in the openness of our hearts, in generosity, in gratitude and compassion towards others, and in the steadiness of our contentment.
Andrew Furst
#65. Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.
Samuel Johnson
#66. Real happiness comes from having an unassailable connection to the deep state of unbounded awareness at our core. This state of being is our own inner joy that expresses the exuberance and wonder of being alive at this moment; it is our own self-luminous essence made conscious of itself.
Deepak Chopra
#67. The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.
Helen Keller
#68. Inattention to he world's ecological state is well advised. Because attention to it mitigates against your happiness, contentment your sense of well being.
Stephen Jenkinson
#69. After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.
Paulo Coelho
#70. Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.
Nicholas Of Flue
#71. Happiness is a state of mind and not a state of possession. Be as you are and you will be happy, if you try to be someone else you will be miserable.
Apoorve Dubey
#73. Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!
Fulton J. Sheen
#74. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne Du Maurier
#76. Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#77. Often, when I sewed, I would slip into a meditative state, almost as if I'd become one with the fabric and thread. At these times, I felt a kind of release that was almost like happiness.
Gioia Diliberto
#78. Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato
#79. Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
J.C. Ryle
#80. America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others.
Alex Epstein
#81. Happiness is achieved by flowing with the known and the unknown within you, being in a state of simplified simplicity.
P.A. Wunderlich
#82. It was a temporary state of grace, this upwelling of suspense and happiness, but I knew that every feeling I'd ever had was and would be temporary.
Christine Sneed
#83. I am constrained to express my adoration of the Supreme Being, the Author of my existence, in full belief of His providential goodness and His forgiving mercy revealed to the world through Jesus Christ, through Whom I hope for never-ending happiness in a future state.
Robert Treat Paine
#84. ALWAYS BE HAPPY IS NOT IMPORTANT , WHAT IMPORTANT IS TO FIGHT THE STATE OF MIND WHICH MAKES US HAPPY OR UNHAPPY !!
Tushar Upreti
#85. It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.
Fernando Pessoa
#86. I couldn't peel my eyes off her face or her body. Even if she had asked me not to follow her, I would have followed anyway. I was in a Norah state of mind.
Angela Richardson
#87. Happiness and satisfaction always imply some desire fulfilled, some state of pain brought to an end.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#88. Happiness is our natural state of being that cannot be found in anything external.
Christopher Dines
#89. Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.
Walt Disney Company
#90. Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically.
Frederick Lenz
#91. Scheler writes: It is not the glowing prospect of a happy afterlife, but the experienced happiness of being in a state of grace of God while in throes of agony that released the wonderful powers in the martyrs.
Timothy Keller
#92. Our state of mind, our state of being, and our outlook on life is contagious.
Rob Martin
#94. Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.
Pope Pius XII
#95. Happiness is everything in the whole universe. It's a state of mind. Your whole life is a state of mind. So be happy, why not?
Frederick Lenz
#96. Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
John Locke
#97. As a general rule, nine tenths of happiness may be said to rest on the state of health; when this is perfect, anything and everything may be a source of pleasure; in illness, on the other hand, nothing, no matter what its nature may be, is capable of affording any real enjoyment.
Edgar Saltus
#98. Even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.
Alice Hegan Rice
#99. To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and go beyond the mind. By turning the mind's concentration inward, upon the self, we can deepen that experience of perfect concentration. This is the state of Meditation.
Sivananda
