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

— Confucius

Contentment Looking For Happiness quotations

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Looking for happiness quote Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and
Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.

Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future.

Looking for happiness quote Be so happy that when others look at you they become happy too.
Be so happy that when others look at you they become happy too.

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.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

Looking for happiness quote Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it.
Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it.
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Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement.

....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Looking for happiness quote Be so happy that when others look at you they become happy too.
Be so happy that when others look at you they become happy too.
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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

We're a new generation of people. We need to be happy. We need to love each other. We need to accept each other for who we are and stop judging each other. Live life and love. Stop judging just to keep yourself secure. Look deeper. There's always something deeper than what it is.

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored.

I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

I am happy to note that the BJP as an organization is looking to creatively harness Power of Social Media. We have to ensure our Youth stays engaged in our Democratic process. We have to make our Democratic process accessible to them. Social media is an important tool for this.

Look within. Within you is the hidden God. Within you is the immortal soul. Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure. Within you is the ocean of bliss. Look within for the happiness which you have sought in vain.

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.

Look in the mirror every day and say, I am in charge.

You might not have control over every phase of your life, but you have more control than you realize, and you are responsible for your own happiness and success.

If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may .

.. become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us.

Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.

All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.

Fraser's mother, Janice, was actually quite a happy soul but she had to hide it because, like all pseudo intellectuals, she thought being cheery made her look stupid, which of course she was for believing that rubbish in the first place. She like to talk about Sartre sometimes, just as insurance.

Looking for happiness in the body, mind or world is like looking for the screen in a movie. The screen doesn't appear in the movie, and yet, at the same time, all that is seen in the movie is the screen. In the same way that the screen 'hides' in plain view, so happiness 'hides' in all experience.

For you wake one day, look around and say, somebody wonderful married me.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.

If I look at blood work of a client, I can tell what kind of probability they will have for success in their career, the probability they will have a successful marriage or successful relationship. I can see how passionate they are, whether or not they experience emotions like elation, passion, exuberance, joy, happiness.

You will never improve your life if you keep searching for happiness in the same toxic people and places that you lost it. That person is still an *sshole, that relationship is still toxic, that job still sucks, your past is past. You have to look forward to moving forward.

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “You are blessed doublee if you are in love” - honeya “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it.

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Meditation is valuable for all of humanity because it involves looking inward.

People don't have to be religious to look inside themselves more carefully. It is constructive and worthwhile to analyze our emotions, including compassion and our sense of caring, so that we can become more calm and happy.

Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.