Quotes on Searching For Happiness

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Most people are searching for happiness. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves. That's a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.

We’re all alive, but we don’t know why or what for; we’re all searching for happiness; we’re all leading lives which are different and yet the same.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. Man’s search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.

The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.