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I don't know the true meaning of happiness. -- Jonathan Davis
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. -- Albert Camus
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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. -- John Dewey
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. -- Laura Schlessinger
A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace. -- Suze Orman
The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist. -- Hal Sparks
I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it. -- Charisma Carpenter
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose. -- Karl Ove Knausgaard
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning. -- Ben Carson
The meaning of life is happiness. -- Dalai Lama
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. -- Andrei Platonov
Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning -- Tal Ben-Shahar
There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning. -- Thomas Aquinas
The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile. -- Tom Rath
What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning. -- Martin Seligman
Nothing in this life will bring true meaning and happiness apart from God. -- Jim George
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. -- Carl Gustav Jung
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. -- Carl Gustav Jung
I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness. -- Carson Cistulli
The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now. -- Marshall Goldsmith
I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness. -- Bill Watterson
The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation. -- Josef Pieper
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. -- Aristotle
In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness. -- Peter L. Berger
A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness -- Dalai Lama
One of the fundamental conditions of happiness is to know that everything that one does has a meaning in eternity -- Titus Burckhardt
If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol. -- Timothy Keller
We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning. -- Isabel Allende
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater. -- Anton Chekhov
Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility. -- David W Augsburger
A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success. -- Michael Josephson
Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret--a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence. -- Richie Norton
Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery. -- Terry Pratchett
If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility -- Dalai Lama
What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms. -- Tony Robbins
Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself). -- Tony Hsieh
What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise? -- Nikos Kazantzakis
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning and enrichment, emotion and cognition. -- Paul Kurtz

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