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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. -- John W. Gardner
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. -- Chuck Palahniuk
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. -- Ben Jonson
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. -- Bertrand Russell
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. -- Joseph Addison
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. -- Og Mandino
Realize that true happiness lies within you. -- Lucian
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. -- Abraham Lincoln
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. -- Immanuel Kant
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. -- Seneca the Younger
Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness. -- Konosuke Matsushita
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. -- Michael J. Fox
Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents. -- John W. Gardner
True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant. -- Hrithik Roshan
Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. -- Nhat Hanh
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. -- Jose Marti
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. -- Baron de Montesquieu
...there is no such thing as finding true happiness by searching for it directly. It must come, if it come at all, indirectly, or by the service, the love, and the happiness we give to others. -- Ralph Waldo Trine
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. -- Seneca the Elder
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. -- Charles Morgan
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. -- Buddha
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. -- Og Mandino
True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment. -- Dada Vaswani
Being of service to others is what brings true happiness. -- Marie Osmond
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. -- John Mason Brown
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. -- Seneca the Younger
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller
I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness. -- Nicki Minaj
It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back. -- Adrian Grenier
The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled. -- Eliza Doolittle
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future. -- Eckhart Tolle
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. -- David Lynch
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity. -- Robert Trout
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. -- John Ruskin
I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community. -- Padmasree Warrior
In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love. -- Marla Gibbs
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. -- Buddha
The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions. -- Kelsang Gyatso
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy. -- Dada Vaswani
Love is true happiness. -- Auliq Ice
True happiness lies within you. -- Og Mandino
True happiness springs from moderation. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One cannot revoke a true happiness. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Happiness is the true beauty weapon. -- Susan Sarandon
It's true. Happiness is a big thing. -- Joel Parkinson
Monogamy is the true path to happiness. -- Wilt Chamberlain
Happiness is making your dreams come true. -- Jourdan Dunn
True happiness involves the freedom to be yourself. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
I don't know the true meaning of happiness. -- Jonathan Davis
True happiness comes only by making others happy. -- David O. McKay
Good food is the basis of true happiness -- Auguste Escoffier
True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it. -- Pliny the Elder
Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness. -- Gerald Jampolsky
True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things. -- Eckhart Tolle
Happiness is a true wealth, which no money can buy. -- Alon Calinao Dy
True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'. -- Buddhadasa
The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity. -- Olivia Goldsmith
The true source of happiness is within each of us. -- Chris Prentiss
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness. -- John Milton
The quest for God is the quest for true happiness. -- Harold Klemp
True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within. -- David Lynch
The single fact of existing is already a true happiness. -- Blaise Cendrars
True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary. -- Sharon Salzberg
The desire for true happiness is nothing to feel ashamed about. -- Thanissaro Bhikkhu
I truly am living out what true joy and happiness means. -- Jessica White
The secret of true happiness lies within unwavering devotion to God -- Shri Radhe Maa
True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.] -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them. -- Marquis de Sade
Take out the garbage...true happiness comes from within not from without! -- Ken Poirot
Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.. -- Bernhard Schlink
True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned. -- Eckhart Tolle
True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found. -- David Hume
A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness. -- John Eldredge
Nothing in this life will bring true meaning and happiness apart from God. -- Jim George
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad. -- Tori Amos
True happiness will be there when we learn to respect and love our women. -- Debasish Mridha
All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness. -- Arnold Lobel
As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness. -- Amber Riley
For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail. -- Gore Vidal
True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other. -- Maxwell Maltz
That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ. -- Pope Francis
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness. -- Harlan Coben
But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight. -- Johanna Lindsey
The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness -- Bertrand Russell
The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true. -- James Allen
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. -- John Ruskin
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. -- William L. Shirer
To buy a cake... to howl at the moon... to know true happiness... I am happy. -- C. JoyBell C.
Through embracing the diversity of humans beings, we will find a sure way to true happiness. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Struggle is actually something that is important to the process of understanding what true happiness is. -- Ryan Allis
True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances. -- Daisaku Ikeda
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. -- William J. H. Boetcker
True happiness comes from the realization that God has already made available everything we will ever need. -- Angela Burt-Murray
No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. -- Charles Sumner
True happiness that stands the taste of time comes by recognizing and appreciating what we do possess. -- Ogwo David Emenike
True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared. -- Thomas Merton
No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. -- Charles Sumner
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man. -- Phillips Brooks
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods. -- Aristotle
Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you. -- Robert Holden
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. -- William Morris
True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object. -- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost. -- Bertrand Russell
Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness. -- Ellen G. White
There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness -- Edward Bach
True happiness cannot not be achieved through wealth, fame or action, But through love, modesty and self satisfaction. -- Mouloud Benzadi
God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness. -- George Muller
You experience true happiness when the things you desire rise up to the level of the things you deserve. -- Robert J. Braathe
Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight) -- Peter S. Beagle
True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish. -- Sakyong Mipham
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. -- Ambrose Bierce

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