Lasting Happiness Quotes:

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

- Allan Lokos

topic: Lasting Happiness, Meditation, Feel Good

The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And while the Lord desires that we enjoy His gifts and the people to whom we are joined, He wants us to know that we were created first for His pleasure.

- Francis Frangipane

topic: Real, Lasting Happiness, Keys, Gratification, Pleasing God

There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive.

- Hannah Arendt

source: Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

topic: Lasting Happiness, Boredom, Balance

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

source: Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.138

topic: Wisdom, Lasting Happiness, Knowing

Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life's purpose.

- Robin Sharma

source: Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.63, Jaico Publishing House

topic: Motivational, Lasting Happiness, Accomplish Your Goals, Advancing

The yoga tradition asserts that lasting happiness is dependent on prospering both materially and spiritually.

- Rod Stryker

topic: Yoga, Lasting Happiness, Tradition, Prospering

Learning to honor all four of your soul's desires compels you to thrive at every level, leads to lasting happiness as well as a complete and balanced life.

- Rod Stryker

source: "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

topic: Lasting Happiness, Soul, Honor, Balanced Life

There are no short and easy paths to a long and lasting happiness.

- Nick Vujicic

topic: Lasting Happiness, Long, Path

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

- Hugo Black

topic: Self, Purpose, Firsts, Lasting Happiness, Self Happiness

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

- Roald Dahl

source: Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

topic: Life, Happiness, Beauty, Always Happy, Good Thoughts

The key to lasting happiness is to stop looking for it, and to know that you already have it.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Keys, Being Positive, Lasting, Lasting Happiness

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

- Hugh Black

source: Hugh Black (1901). “Culture and Restraint”

topic: Kindness, Thoughtful, Missing, Outgoing, Lasting Happiness

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

- Dalai Lama

topic: Lasting Happiness

Things which provide deep and lasting happiness and gratitude are the things which money cannot buy: our families, the gospel, good friends, our health, our abilities, the love we receive from those around us.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Gratitude, Good Friend, Ability, Lasting Happiness

A woman must marry the man who loves her but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.

- Mariama Bâ

source: "So Long a Letter".

topic: Love, Dream, Men, Lasting Happiness

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

- Maurice Chevalier

topic: Happiness, Live Life, Race, Perfect Moments, Lasting Happiness

Lasting happiness starts with one question...what can I celebrate?

- Michael Beckwith

topic: Celebrate, Lasting, Lasting Happiness

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

topic: Self, Perfect, Meditation, Lasting Happiness

Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.

- Tal Ben-Shahar

source: Tal Ben-Shahar (2002). “The Question of Happiness: On Finding Meaning, Pleasure, and the Ultimate Currency”, p.15, iUniverse

topic: Journey, Climbing, Effort, Happy Inspirational, Enjoy It While It Lasts

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

- Joseph Franklin Rutherford

topic: Happiness, Ignorance, Men, Lasting Happiness, Imperfect Man

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.

- Vincent Nichols

topic: Profound, Gains, Fruit, Lasting Happiness

Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed always escalate into a vicious spiral, as we seek greater and greater gratification but find less and less contentment. . . . Striving to acquire the things of the world not only does not bring lasting happiness and peace, but it drives us to seek more. When "all we've ever wanted" is grounded in the temporal trappings of this world, it is never enough!

- Brent L. Top

topic: Envy, Greed, Contentment, Worldly Things, Lasting Happiness

I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Caring, Understanding, Heartfelt, Lasting Happiness

When we understand the best way to achieve all our goals is to assist others in achieving their goals, we will find the key to lasting happiness.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Keys, Goal, Way, Lasting Happiness

Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Lasting Happiness

There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.

- Chris Prentiss

topic: Way, Achieve, Lasting, Lasting Happiness

Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people will do well to reevaluate, to renew their courting, to express their affection, to acknowledge kindness, and to increase their consideration so their marriage again can become beautiful, sweet, and growing. While marriage is difficult, and discordant and frustrated marriages are common, yet real, lasting happiness is possible, and marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive.

- Spencer W. Kimball

topic: Beautiful, Sweet, Couple, Gravy, Lasting Happiness

Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.

- Chris Heimerdinger

topic: Endurance, Lasting, Offspring, Lasting Happiness

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?

- Amin Maalouf

source: Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.342, Macmillan

topic: Believe, Arrogant, Generations, Lasting Happiness

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Happiness, Believe, Compassion, Key To Happiness, Peace And Tolerance

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

- William Henry Harrison

source: David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

topic: Religious, Responsibility, Liberty, Lasting Happiness

The most important thing in life is human affection. Without it one cannot achieve genuine happiness. And if we want a happier life, a happier family, happier neighbours or a happier nation, the key is inner quality. Even if the five billion human beings that inhabit the earth become millionaires, without inner development there cannot be peace or any lasting happiness.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Happier Life, Most Important Things In Life, Genuine Happiness, Lasting Happiness

Some people get the impression that Buddhism talks too much about suffering. In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time. Similarly, the Buddhist is willing to sacrifice immediate comfort so that he or she can achieve lasting happiness.

- Dalai Lama

source: Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

topic: Lasting Happiness

No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it is often our pursuit of material possessions that causes our problems. If we want ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering, we must engage in the supreme practices of training the mind. There is no other way.

- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

topic: Happiness, Freedom, Practice, Ultimate Happiness, Lasting Happiness

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.

- Alfred Billings Street

topic: Hope, Giving, Soul, Seals, Charity And Love

It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good.

- Marion G. Romney

topic: Lord, Paradoxical, Command, Celestial, Lifting Others

I am aware there are books that instruct you on how to manipulate the market, stocks and people... they might even help you get money. But, let me caution you... when there is no spiritual growth... there is no spiritual strength... there is no lasting happiness... and, there is no real or lasting wealth.

- Bob Proctor

topic: Spiritual, Real, Book, Spiritual Strength, Lasting Happiness

Some people travel to other dimensions in their astral bodies when they meditate.

- Frederick Lenz

source: Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

topic: Buddhism, People, Body, Lasting Happiness