What Does Happiness Mean Quotes

#1. Arturo Bandini: -What does happiness mean to you Camilla?
Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to,
and not feel ashamed of it.

John Fante

#2. By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.

Edith Sitwell

#3. Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

Robert Breault

#4. Happiness does not mean the absence of problems, but the existence of passion.

Sameh Elsayed

#5. You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them.

Francesca Marciano

#6. Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#7. Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.

Democritus

#8. The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love. Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.

Josef Pieper

#9. Just because it is night now it doesn't mean that there is no morning. Just hope for the best and be patient.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Happiness does not mean being free from problems and trials, but finding purpose in problems and trials can result in abundant happiness.

Hank Smith

#11. Always remember that on the path to happiness, sometimes there are unexpected twists and turns ... but that doesn't mean they aren't the perfect twists and turns for you.

Meg Cabot

#12. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Dalai Lama

#13. Basically, we are all different and we all have something to learn and it doesn't mean people need to change who you are but one should be open to new things and, above all, tolerance and understanding are essential for growth and happiness.

Toks Olagundoye

#14. All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

Blaise Pascal

#15. You are kind when you show your kindness to a person who is rude to you. It doesn't mean that you are weak, it shows your greatness and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

E.W. Howe

#17. I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.

C.S. Lewis

#18. Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon

Joyce Meyer

#19. Stop being jealous, I mean, to be jealous is to suggest that God doesn't know what she is doing. This is ridiculous! She does everything perfectly

Frederick Lenz

#20. What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.

Abraham Maslow

#21. Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant?

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#22. Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.

Josef Pieper

#23. Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.

Frederick Lenz

#24. I'm just living each day, and I'm better equipped to do so. I mean, I used to be totally afraid, I used to have, like, permanent stage fright. But now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to bring as much happiness to as many people as possible.

Rivers Cuomo

#25. Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

Horace

#26. Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can.

Debasish Mridha

#27. I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.

Sylvester Stallone

#28. Femininity for me means happiness and freedom ... freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.

Kate Winslet

#29. I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.

Win Butler

#30. Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.

Banana Yoshimoto

#31. Happiness is the cure - a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both. No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

Charlotte Bronte

#32. You don't seem to have guts. There is no need to surrender to each other. Surrender to love means: enjoy in the happiness of the other, rejoice in the being of the other; be in tune with each other, dance in harmony.

Rajneesh

#33. You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

Harold S. Kushner

#34. I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.

Ann Brashares

#35. It's not that "sorry" doesn't mean anything; it just doesn't mean anything when some people say it ... Don't be one of those people.

Steve Maraboli

#36. The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.

Kevin DeYoung

#37. If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness.

Caitlin Thomas

#38. Integrity is about being integrated with the spiritual values of the Universe. It is also about being happy, because happiness and joy mean that you're coming into integrity with your soul.

Michael Beckwith

#39. When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.

Josephine Humphreys

#40. SNSD means the coming of the era of girls, it's filled with hope. We wish to bring a generation of health and happiness.

Im Yoona

#41. And yet, even if my heart beats for Evil, that doesn't mean I can't find love. That doesn't mean I can't find happiness. It just means I have to find love with someone who embraces my darkness instead of fighting it.

Soman Chainani

#42. When somebody elses happiness makes you happy, it means you are a person with a big heart.

Jenni Rivera

#43. I hate when men think that money is gonna buy you happiness ... I mean, it helps.

Chelsea Handler

#44. Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

Robertson Davies