Lasting Happiness Quotes

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don't celebrate those, they can pass you by.

Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.

And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.

Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.

I focused my life on things that are a little more dependable, like my family and things that actually make me happy, rather than momentary flashes of success or anything like that.

There are no short and easy paths to a long and lasting happiness.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.

Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

Doing for others may be the only way to create lasting well-being.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you.