The True Happiness Quotes

#1. Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from having a compassionate attitude, we need to make a concerted effort to develop compassion.

Dalai Lama

#2. Your greatest difficulty is with yourself; for you are your own stumbling-block. You do not know what you want. You are better at approving the right course than at following it out. You see where the true happiness lies, but you have not the courage to attain it.

Seneca.

#3. It is only you, treading in the blessed path of peace and freedom, who can bring about the true regeneration of society, and with it the true happiness of your own lives.

Auberon Herbert

#4. Nonfear is the basis of true happiness, and if you can offer nonfear to someone, you are giving that person the best kind of gift.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#5. The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. Focusing on worldly achievements and acceptance has never been the way to true happiness, and an obsessive, discontent with our physical appearance can lead to unhappiness if not despair.

Pamela H. Hansen

#7. Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again

Elyne Mitchell

#8. The knowledge of the Spirit is the true secret of creativity, leadership and happiness. It is spiritual intelligence that makes an ordinary person a genius. When a genius loses his spiritual intelligence, he becomes quite ordinary.

Awdhesh Singh

#9. For a consumer society thrives by stoking unquenchable desires into unsustainable cravings and fanning them with an inflated rage for rights. The restlessness it creates by providing false satisfactions and deadening true desires simultaneously fuels the economy and destroys happiness.

Os Guinness

#10. When the power of love overtakes all other power then we will find the true peace on earth.

Debasish Mridha

#11. To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.

Daisaku Ikeda

#12. The essential tendency of life is toward happiness ... Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

Phillips Brooks

#13. See, I am very dependent ... on beauty and peace of the world ... on loyalty of friends ... on love in families ... on happiness and health of children. And I do not want to be free as long as I have it all ...

Galina Nelson

#14. The quest for God is the quest for true happiness.

Harold Klemp

#15. True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Happiness comes in many forms - in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else's dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It's okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be.

Lucas Scott

#17. There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

Fiona Shaw

#18. The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.

Sarah Jio

#19. when the soul is transported, the only virtue lies in loving what you see (is that not true?), the supreme happiness in having what you have;

Umberto Eco

#20. Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.

Xi Jinping

#21. 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

#22. Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#23. Your eyes gave it away. You don't want the old stuff. You want to have the new and improved Well-being, go with the right people and they'll be right for you.

Auliq Ice

#24. Almost everyone nowadays is on the wrong track in their pursuit of
happiness. They think a great deal about having and receiving, about
outward show and success and being served by others. That is what most
people call fulfillment.
True fulfillment, though, lies in giving and serving.

Paulo Coelho

#25. True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.

Sakyong Mipham

#26. Sometimes I'm afraid I'm happy, but because I expect it to be something else, I question the experience. So now, when in doubt," she shrugged with true bravado, "I'll assume I'm happy.

Carrie Fisher

#27. Until you're willing to accept what already is - the things of your past that you can't change - there's no space for you to create what you want. Acceptance is the key to unlocking the door to true peace, happiness, and freedom.

Hal Elrod

#28. To see the true beauty of a person, see through the mirror of your love.

Debasish Mridha

#29. True happiness comes from the realization that God has already made available everything we will ever need.

Angela Burt-Murray

#30. Persistence is the fundamental ingredient of true success.

Debasish Mridha

#31. The Devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning, ever since Satan first came to the first man in the form of a snake and whispered to Adam that true happiness was not to be found in prayer but in Eve's cunt.

Joe Hill

#32. The only reason a true friend won't be there to pick you up is because they are lying beneath you from trying to break your fall.

Tommy Cotton

#33. I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#34. saying goodbye isnt hard, but saying it to something you care about is whats hard, because you dont want to forget the emmotional pain and happiness they caused in you're life.

Annoymous

#35. I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

#36. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.

Henry David Thoreau

#37. One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica)

Shannon A. Thompson

#38. But horrible things happen alongside wonderful things all the time. And if you let the horrible things detract from the wonder of the good things, you'll never really feel true happiness.

Leta Blake

#39. I sold the collection because I finally understood what true love really meant. Tim had told me-and shown me-that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. - John Tyree

Nicholas Sparks

#40. I knew you were the one when I realized your smile was my heaven, your laugh my favorite song, and your arms my home.

Steve Maraboli

#41. Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

Walter Savage Landor

#42. 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

#43. True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.

Buddhadasa

#44. Recognizing our own craziness is, of course, the first step towards true sanity, Its the beginning our healing, peace, happiness and transcendence.
Therefore ... I'm crazy and I know it! Your turn ...

Jose N. Harris

#45. I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

Jonathan Davis

#46. Vision is the code that decodes every mediocrity out of life.

Auliq Ice

#47. But happiness only if I can raise the world into the Pure, the True, the Immutable.

Franz Kafka

#48. All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.

Arnold Lobel

#49. It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands.

Auberon Herbert

#50. If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#51. time - that true happiness is found, not in the indulgence of pride and luxury, but in communion with God through his created works.

Ellen G. White

#52. A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?

Ayn Rand

#53. Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

E. M. Forster

#54. Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

Brenda Shoshanna

#55. True happiness Is not a mental hallucination. True happiness Is not a complacent feeling. True happiness Is the spontaneous feeling of joy That comes from knowing 132 You are doing the right thing 133 And leading a divine life.

Sri Chinmoy

#56. I want to be the 'WHY' behind your happiness.

Faraaz Kazi

#57. Love moves in sync with the cadence of forgiveness, sings in tune with the melody of acceptance, and dances in rhythm with the music of companionship.

Steve Maraboli

#58. Poor the man who has earned millions and millions of rupees but has never tasted the meaning of true love.

Avijeet Das

#59. You can still make today the day you change yourself, love yourself, forgive yourself, respect yourself, honor yourself, cherish yourself, admire yourself, express yourself, be true to yourself ... It's never too late!

Steve Maraboli

#60. Real happiness comes from a deeper place, not from anything external. The freshest and best water flows from the deepest, darkest chasms of the mountain. Likewise, true happiness flows from the hidden places of the human heart.

Bobby Schuller

#61. It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else ...

Robert A. Heinlein

#62. Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

Peter S. Beagle

#63. the apostles of mediocrity shall always stand to defend mediocrity out of mediocrity

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#64. My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Dickens

#65. True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Aristotle.

#66. Coming true is not the only purpose of a dream. Its most important purpose is to get us in touch with where dreams come from, where passion comes from, where happiness comes from. Even a shattered dream can do that for you.

Lisa Bu

#67. Money can give the soul comfort, but it can never buy true, real and eternal life in Christ Jesus for the soul, and though it can make the soul lively, it can never guarantee its true eternal life in Christ!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#68. When we know we are delaying the consequences of truth, whether buried in our subconscious or ignored by our conscious thoughts, our denial continues to steal our potential for true happiness.

Elaina Marie

#69. Do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life. I have discovered happiness in being true to who I am.

Julianne Donaldson

#70. True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth ... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

Saint Augustine

#71. The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled.

Eliza Doolittle

#72. If you walk in any direction walk in the direction toward your greatest dream.

Shannon L. Alder

#73. The journey to true happiness and to happiness now is not a journey of physical distance or time; it is one of personal "self-recovery," where we remember and reconnect consciously to an inner potential for joy
a paradise lost
waiting to be found.

Robert Holden

#74. When you discover true happiness you will find that you are wealthier beyond the dreams of kings.

Jeffrey Fry

#75. If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#76. There is a transcendent awareness, a Big Mind, a Big Heart, present and readily accessible to each and every one of us. When we realize it, we see it is the source of true peace, happiness, satisfaction, courage and joy.

Dennis Merzel

#77. The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.

Bradley Joseph

#78. Most people think the more money, luxury or fame they have, the more successful they are; but I think that the true sign of success depends on how many positive emotions they experience each day.

Maddy Malhotra

#79. Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty weapon.
As quoted in The Black Book of Hollywood Beauty Secrets ( Kym Douglas / Cindy Pearlman, 2006)

Susan Sarandon

#80. We wonder what true happiness would be like. Not realizing that one simple thought connected to our hearts can make the difference between us wondering and experiencing it.

Monica Dumont

#81. Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

Thomas S. Monson

#82. The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.

Hugh Prather

#83. You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true.

Andrew Sullivan

#84. Unnatural, unorthodox, amoral: those pretensions crumble when confronted by true happiness. You shouldn't give another the authority to draw a line defining the boundaries of acceptable joy.

Darrell Drake

#85. The only object which ought to be enjoyed is the triune God, who is our highest good and our true happiness.

Augustine Of Hippo

#86. Burning passion, definite purpose and joyful persistence are the defining force for true success.

Debasish Mridha

#87. The one true happiness in life is to love and to be loved

George W. Sands

#88. It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

Victor Hugo

#89. Monogamy is the true path to happiness.

Wilt Chamberlain

#90. A man's true world should be the space and people that enrich his soul,

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#91. Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#92. We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

Samuel Johnson

#93. Morality and freedom are as certainly the only bases of the happiness and dignity of the human race as the system of Galileo is the true theory of the celestial motions.

Germaine De Stael

#94. Life's value is lost when the pursuit of money becomes the goal as opposed to the pursuit of true happiness.

Steven Redhead

#95. A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Thomas Jefferson

#96. Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

Daisaku Ikeda

#97. And to know that joy - not just happiness, but true joy - comes when we give up our own agenda and let God work through us. Then we can begin to see the bigger picture, the eternal picture, rather than just the tiny brush stroke of our own lives.

Laura Sobiech

#98. There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Henry Fielding

#99. There is a joy that brings true happiness, but it is not given to the ungodly. It is only for those who love You for Your own sake. That joy is to know You as You are. This is the happy life, to rejoice in You, of You, and for You.

Augustine Of Hippo

#100. True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.

Ben Jonson