Quotes about TRUE Happiness

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. Votes: 6

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Votes: 6

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. Votes: 6

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Votes: 6

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. Votes: 6

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Votes: 6

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. Votes: 6

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Votes: 5

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Votes: 4

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Votes: 4

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. Votes: 4

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Votes: 4

Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness. Votes: 4

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Votes: 4

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents. Votes: 4

True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant. Votes: 4

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. Votes: 4

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. Votes: 4

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. Votes: 4

...there is no such thing as finding true happiness by searching for it directly. It must come, if it come at all, indirectly, or by the service, the love, and the happiness we give to others. Votes: 4

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. Votes: 4

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. Votes: 4

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Votes: 4

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. Votes: 4

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment. Votes: 2

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness. Votes: 2

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. Votes: 2

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Votes: 2

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Votes: 2

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness. Votes: 2

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back. Votes: 2

The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled. Votes: 2

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. Votes: 2

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity. Votes: 2

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. Votes: 2

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. Votes: 2

I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community. Votes: 2

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love. Votes: 2

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Votes: 2

The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions. Votes: 2

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy. Votes: 2

Love is true happiness. Votes: 0

True happiness lies within you. Votes: 0

True happiness springs from moderation. Votes: 0

One cannot revoke a true happiness. Votes: 0

Happiness is the true beauty weapon. Votes: 0

It's true. Happiness is a big thing. Votes: 0

Monogamy is the true path to happiness. Votes: 0

Happiness is making your dreams come true. Votes: 0

True happiness involves the freedom to be yourself. Votes: 0

I don't know the true meaning of happiness. Votes: 0

True happiness comes only by making others happy. Votes: 0

Good food is the basis of true happiness Votes: 0

True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness. Votes: 0

True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things. Votes: 0

Happiness is a true wealth, which no money can buy. Votes: 0

True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'. Votes: 0

The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity. Votes: 0

The true source of happiness is within each of us. Votes: 0

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness. Votes: 0

The quest for God is the quest for true happiness. Votes: 0

True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within. Votes: 0

The single fact of existing is already a true happiness. Votes: 0

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary. Votes: 0

The desire for true happiness is nothing to feel ashamed about. Votes: 0

I truly am living out what true joy and happiness means. Votes: 0

The secret of true happiness lies within unwavering devotion to God Votes: 0

True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.] Votes: 0

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world. Votes: 0

True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them. Votes: 0

Take out the garbage...true happiness comes from within not from without! Votes: 0

Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.. Votes: 0

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty. Votes: 0

True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned. Votes: 0

True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors. Votes: 0

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found. Votes: 0

A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness. Votes: 0

Nothing in this life will bring true meaning and happiness apart from God. Votes: 0

To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad. Votes: 0

True happiness will be there when we learn to respect and love our women. Votes: 0

All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness. Votes: 0

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness. Votes: 0

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail. Votes: 0

True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities. Votes: 0

True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other. Votes: 0

That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ. Votes: 0

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness. Votes: 0

But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight. Votes: 0

The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it. Votes: 0

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness Votes: 0

The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true. Votes: 0

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Votes: 0

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Votes: 0

To buy a cake... to howl at the moon... to know true happiness... I am happy. Votes: 0

Through embracing the diversity of humans beings, we will find a sure way to true happiness. Votes: 0

Struggle is actually something that is important to the process of understanding what true happiness is. Votes: 0

True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances. Votes: 0

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. Votes: 0

True happiness comes from the realization that God has already made available everything we will ever need. Votes: 0

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. Votes: 0

True happiness that stands the taste of time comes by recognizing and appreciating what we do possess. Votes: 0

True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared. Votes: 0

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. Votes: 0

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man. Votes: 0

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods. Votes: 0

Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you. Votes: 0

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. Votes: 0

True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object. Votes: 0

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost. Votes: 0

Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness. Votes: 0

There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness Votes: 0

True happiness cannot not be achieved through wealth, fame or action, But through love, modesty and self satisfaction. Votes: 0

God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness. Votes: 0

You experience true happiness when the things you desire rise up to the level of the things you deserve. Votes: 0

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight) Votes: 0

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish. Votes: 0

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Votes: 0

The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own. Votes: 0

What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified. Votes: 0

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness. Votes: 0

I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again. Votes: 0

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. Votes: 0

True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others. Votes: 0

We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true. Votes: 0

Be educated. Only true education and wisdom can lighten the burdens of your life and fill it with joy and happiness. Votes: 0

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness. Votes: 0

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness. Votes: 0

When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in. Votes: 0

True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved. Votes: 0

When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love. Votes: 0

No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness. Votes: 0

It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true. Votes: 0

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts. Votes: 0

We can go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness, and totally miss where true peace lives-right here, right now. Votes: 0

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish. Votes: 0

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish. Votes: 0

If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it. Votes: 0

True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness. Votes: 0

You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost. Votes: 0

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. Votes: 0

Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true. Votes: 0

People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself Votes: 0

Stay put and you will remain as such. Jump in and you might get wet. Dive and you might find true happiness. Votes: 0

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future. Votes: 0

The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness. Votes: 0

You can search high & low to find happiness on earth, yet unless you love yourself, you will never find your true belonging. Votes: 0

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power. Votes: 0

A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success. Votes: 0

Health, wealth, reputation, and status are all mere ingredients of happiness. The key to true well-being is being able to manage them capably. Votes: 0

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality. Votes: 0

The more you go within, the more you understand your true nature, and the more joy and happiness you feel in your life. Votes: 0

We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion. Votes: 0

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction. Votes: 0

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release. Votes: 0

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. Votes: 0

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true. Votes: 0

To those who have not yet learned the secret of true happiness, begin now to study the little things in your own door yard. Votes: 0

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. Votes: 0

Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within. Votes: 0

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression. Votes: 0

It's so hard for women to be happy for one another, like genuinely happy. Once you find that, you know you've found true SELF happiness Votes: 0

The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of. Votes: 0

The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both happiness and virtue radiates inner beauty. Votes: 0

The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness. Votes: 0

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer. Votes: 0

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love. Votes: 0

True wealth, success, and happiness can only be achieved by balancing our business life with the duty we have to our self and to our family. Votes: 0

for true happiness, sane enjoyment, you must look to the country, not town. Only you want one true heart beside you with which to enjoy it! Votes: 0

I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness. Votes: 0

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character Votes: 0

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness. Votes: 0

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment. Votes: 0

I want to be part of the happiness team - let's create the happiness team - from love, not greed, love of life & our planet, true & free. Votes: 0

Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness. Votes: 0

If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility Votes: 0

Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness. Votes: 0

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful. Votes: 0

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation. Votes: 0

True happiness for me is playing a concert in Blink-182, and then hanging out with my friends and my wife and son, and going out for Mexican food. Votes: 0

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you. Votes: 0

When the songs of your heart start singing, you should listen...for its harmony will bring you happiness and the melody is the voice of your true spirit. Votes: 0

What is happiness to me is not necessarily for you. Someone once said, there are three truths: your truth, my truth and the truth. And I think that's true. Votes: 0

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution. Votes: 0

True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment. Votes: 0

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness. Votes: 0

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. Votes: 0

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present. Votes: 0

True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person. Votes: 0

Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy. Votes: 0

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained. Votes: 0

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey. Votes: 0

But let that not be the moral of my story. True happiness doesn't come from simply getting married. I don't believe a woman's worth should be measured by whether or not she's married. Votes: 0

And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0