Browsing Topic Best Pursuit Of Happiness Quotes

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

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

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

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

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

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

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

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others.

Live with the objective of being happy.

Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine. And, and from first graders in Newtown, first graders.

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

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

You know that saying ‘A little knowledge is a dangerous thing’? That’s so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person’s personality. Destiny unfolds in the pursuit of individual fascinations and interests… By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

That is our generation’s task – to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

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

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

I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival; in conversation, not monologues; in multiple questions rather than any single answer. I believe in the struggle to remake ourselves and challenge each other in the spirit of eternal forgiveness, in the awareness that none of us knows for sure what happiness truly is, but each of us knows the imperative to keep searching. I believe in the possibility of surprising joy, of serenity through pain, of homecoming through exile.

Luxury is…to be able to take control of one’s life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.