Real Happiness Quotes:

I learned that real happiness doesn’t come from getting but from giving.

- Gabrielle Bernstein

source: Gabrielle Bernstein (2013). “May Cause Miracles: A 6-week Kick-start to Unlimited Happiness”, p.3, Hay House, Inc

topic: Real, Giving, Real Happiness

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

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

- Hosea Ballou

source: "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

topic: Happiness, Happy, Real, Looking For Happiness, What Is Happiness

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

- Storm Jameson

source: Storm Jameson (1941). “The End of this War”

topic: Inspirational, Thinking, Risk, Inner Happiness, Perfect Happiness

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

- Aristotle

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

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Happiness, Make Others Happy, Chocolate, Spiritual Happiness, Others Happiness

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Life, Happiness, Who You Are, Life And Happiness, How To Be Happy

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

- Anne Frank

source: Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

topic: Happiness, God, Lonely, Beautiful Nature, Nature Beauty

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Always Happy, Capricious

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Life, Happiness, Work, Spiritual Wealth, Wealth And Happiness

You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

- Kirsten Dunst

source: "Kirsten Dunst: after the apocalypse" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2011.

topic: Happiness, Simple, Satisfaction, Jeopardy, Oaks

You can never get enough of what you don't want.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Want, Abundance, Enough, Oaks, What Is Happiness

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

- Robertson Davies

topic: Life, Happiness, Happy, Always Happy, Inner Happiness

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Interesting Life, Make Up Your Mind

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Happiness, Simplicity, Needs, Frugality, Oaks

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Smart, Sometimes All You Need, Inner Peace And Happiness

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Spiritual Wealth, Money Happiness

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Happiness, Men, Inner Peace, What Is Happiness, Real Happiness

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

- Charles Caleb Colton

topic: Happiness, Real Happiness

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

- Bernard Meltzer

topic: Happiness, Kissing, Enjoy Life, Reciprocity, Sorrow And Happiness

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

- Charles Caleb Colton

topic: Love, Happiness, Dream, Real Happiness, Routes

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

- William Saroyan

topic: Happiness, Gratitude, Cheer, Real Happiness

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

- E. L. Konigsburg

source: E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.102, Pushkin Press

topic: Happiness, Happy, Littles, Secret To Happiness, Flapping

It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Buddhist, Real, Joy, Real Happiness

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

- Horace

topic: Kings, Real, Greatness, Real Happiness

They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.

- Jeff Lindsay

topic: Lying, Real, Believe, Real Happiness

Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.

- Helen Keller

topic: Real, Blow, Men, Real Happiness

The heart of myself has always been something just wanting so bad. I have had an empty center, black as a basement, but also knowing about light and waiting. Young as I am, I know now that everything is about to come. Jimmy will be the place for me to learn the real happiness. He will be my Joy School. My joy. Mine.

- Elizabeth Berg

topic: Happiness, Real, Heart, Real Happiness

It is a basic human need that everyone wants to live a happy life. For this, one has to experience real happiness. The so-called happiness that one experiences by having money, power, and indulging in sensual pleasures is not real happiness. It is very fragile, unstable and fleeting. For real happiness, for lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and get rid of all the unhappiness stored in the deeper levels of the mind. As long as there is misery at the depth of the mind all attempts to feel happy at the surface level of the mind prove futile.

- S. N. Goenka

source: S. N. Goenka (2012). “Meditation Now: Inner Peace through Inner Wisdom”, p.42, Pariyatti Publishing

topic: Real, Happy Life, Journey, Money Power, Real Happiness

Real happiness is not dependent on external things.

- William Lyon Phelps

topic: Happiness, Real, Thoughts And Emotions, Real Happiness

Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Real, Reason, Real Happiness

Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

- Ramana Maharshi

topic: Happiness, Real, Self, Self Realization, Real Happiness

. . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.

- J. Willard Marriott

topic: Friendship, Real, Character, Real Happiness, Make Or Break

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.

- Sharon Stone

topic: Motivational, Positive, Happiness, Real Happiness

Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service .

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Real, Self, Civilization, Multiplication, Self Indulgence

Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Happiness, Real, Buddhism, Deep Meditation, Real Happiness

Real happiness in life comes from the mental capacity to adapt to any situation.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

source: Twitter post from Apr 02, 2016

topic: Spiritual, Real, Life Happiness, Real Happiness

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

- Laurence Sterne

source: Laurence Sterne (1814). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.330

topic: Real, Acquiescence, Definitions, Real Happiness

I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.

- John Wooden

source: "Coach Wooden One-On-One".

topic: Real, Taken, Away From You, Worthy Causes, Real Happiness

Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness

- Maria Montessori

topic: Real, Order, Needs, Real Happiness

Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act, leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone with his or her conscience and get its approval, without knowing force or specious knowledge, then he or she begins to know what real happiness is.

- William George Jordan

topic: Real, Knowing, Mentor, Real Happiness

All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance - these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

topic: Pain, Real, Acceptance, Real Happiness

All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful intelligence and a much greater ability to achieve happiness and avoid suffering. Real happiness and friendship come not from money or even knowledge, but from warm-heartednes s. Once we recognize this we will be more inclined to cultivate it.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Pain, Powerful, Real, Real Happiness

The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Beautiful, Running, Sex, Real Happiness

For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.

- S. N. Goenka

topic: Real, Journey, Mind, Real Happiness

I have read true piety defined as: loving one’s destiny unconditionally – and there is something in it. That is to say: I think that in a way this sort of “religiousness” is the condition for real happiness.

- Isak Dinesen

topic: Real, Destiny, Thinking, Real Happiness

Ram Dass

- Ram Dass

source: Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.80, Sounds True

topic: Art, Pain, Unbearable, Transcending, Quaker