Pursuing Happiness Quotes:

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.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Happiness, Thinking, Feelings, Always Happy, Oblivious

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

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Intemperance, Life And Happiness

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

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Always Happy, Inner Peace And Happiness

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

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Happy, Social Good, Loving Others

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

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Happy, Making Friends, Bff

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

- Guillaume Apollinaire

topic: Life, Positive, Happiness, Spiritual Happiness, Just Be Happy

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

- Epicurus

topic: Happiness, Money, Philosophical, Always Happy, Happy Girl

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Happiness, Being Happy, Humor, How To Be Happy, Pursuing Happiness

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

- Anton Chekhov

source: 'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

topic: Happiness, Happy, Summer, Summer And Winter, Summer Garden

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

- Harold S. Kushner

source: Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

topic: Sadness, Mean, Pursuing Happiness

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

topic: Mean, People, Age, 60th Birthday, Pursuing Happiness

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.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

topic: Happiness, Jesus, Discovery, Pursuing Happiness

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.

- Rush Limbaugh

topic: Views, People, Television, Pursuing Happiness

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

- Dan Savage

topic: Happiness, Thinking, Sin, Pursuing Happiness

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.

- Sheena Iyengar

topic: Lonely, Disappointment, People, Personal History, Evaluate

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.

- Eugene H. Peterson

source: Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.118, InterVarsity Press

topic: Luxury, Numbers, People, Overconsumption, Higher Standards

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?

- Dan Savage

topic: Happiness, America, Promise, Pursuing Happiness