H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
“Happiness is not some 'thing' to be pursued it is a way of being born from appreciating”
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
“Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.”
“Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait. Some of those conditions are within you, such as coherence among the parts and levels of your personality. Other conditions require relationships to things beyond you: Just as plants need sun, water, and good soil to thrive, people need love, work, and a connection to something larger. It is worth striving to get the right relationships between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself. If you get these relationships right, a sense of purpose and meaning will emerge.”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“Happiness is not something that you get in life, hapiness is something that you bring in life”
“Happiness is not something that you pursue; it is something that you allow. Happiness is just being.”
“Happiness is not something we can find. Happiness is a state of being. It is a choice we make at any particular moment. It is a feeling we can choose without any reason.”
“Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.”
Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“Happiness is not something you find, but rather something you create.”
“Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies by division. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”
“Happiness is not spending a single second reading endless—and I mean, endless—shitposts in 'The Guardian' masquerading as reportage about the kind of very, very boring morons you actively go out of your way to never meet. Happiness is The Wellcome Collection, but never the Hayward. Happiness is Kylie Minogue and Graham Norton because they're both dope, but not Dua Lipa or Calvin Harris because even though they both seem to be everywhere, all the time, I swear I cannot for the life of me name a single song of theirs.”
“Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.”
“Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.”
“Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Happiness is not the absence of shadow. It is the light that filters through leaves — fleeting, fragile, real.”
Source: AQSU
“Happiness is not the absence of sorrow, happiness is the capacity to overcome sorrow.”
Source: Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students
“Happiness is not the Achievement of Dreams.
It is the Path to Dreams.”
“Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.”
“Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.”
“Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind.”
“Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.”
“Happiness is not the portion of man.”
Source: VOLTAIRE’S ROMANCES: 20+ Novels, Short Stories, Satires & Fables (Illustrated): Candide, Zadig, The Huron, Plato's Dream, Micromegas, The White Bull, The Princess of Babylon, The Sage and the Atheist, The Man of Forty Crowns, Bababec, Ancient Faith and Fable, The Study of Nature…
“Happiness is not the purpose of life, but seeking meaning and purpose in life attracts happiness everywhere you go.”
“Happiness is not the result of circumstance. It is the result of loving others.”
“Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.”
“Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.”
“Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.”
“Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being that has achieved cross-level coherence within herself, and between herself and the people, challenges, and institutions around her. Happiness comes from between.”
“Happiness is not the simple purpose of life but it is the ultimate purpose of all purposes of life.”
“Happiness is not the victory, success or accomplishment; it is what happens at the end of the day?”
“Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.”
“Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy—a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge”
“Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.”
“Happiness is not wishing you had fewer challenges, it's the ability to have skills to discover solutions when faced with challenges”
“Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.”
Source: Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories
“Happiness, is nothing but just the gain of your personal gratification when you look in your bowl and it has more than others. The so-called “caring people”, just ensure you have something in your bowl and they will try their hard to make it happen only until your quantity does not exceed theirs.”
“Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.”
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
“Happiness is NOW! It isn't tomorrow. It isn't yesterday. Happiness is like a morning glory: Yesterday's won't bloom again; tomorrow's hasn't opened yet. Only today's flower can be enjoyed today. Be happy this very moment, and you'll learn how to be happy always.”
“Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Happiness is odd
Found in mysterious places
Where you least expect it
Like a glowing penny on the floor
Not everyone can find it
And sometimes you lose it
Some find it in small things
Others see it in large things
If you cling to it
You’ll make it through
Because
Happiness is odd”
Source: Speaking Up for Each Other: A Collection of Short Stories for Tweens and Middle Grade Readers
“Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.”
“Happiness is often hard-hearted.”
“Happiness is often hidden in misery; light appears brighter in darkness.”
“Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.”
Source: Islands in the stream
“Happiness is often somewhere near us, not in the far places!”