Pursuing Happiness Quotes

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

People are pursuing happiness, but they're pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don't know that. They've got a distorted view of what will make them happy, what happiness is, and it's based on what they see on television.

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

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

The saying goes that history repeats itself; personal histories do the same. We can gather the lessons of others' lives through observation, conversation, and by seeking advice. We can use the automatic system to find out who the happy people are, and the reflective system to evaluate how they got to be that way. Pursuing happiness need not be a lonely endeavor. In fact, throwing in our lot with others may be a very good way of coping with the disappointments of choice.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

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

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in another part of the world must lower his. The worldwide crisis of hunger that we face today is a result of that method of pursuing happiness. Industrialized nations acquire appetites for more and more luxuries and higher and higher standards of living, and increasing numbers of people are made poor and hungry. It doesn't have to be that way.

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.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.