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• 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 quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Happiness

• Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.

  ~ Sanskrit Poem quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, The Moment, Life, Happiness, Dream

• "Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

  ~ Lao-tzu quotes from Tao Te Ching

  Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Appreciation, Success, Happiness, Fame, Integrity, Failure, Money, Fulfillment, Happy

• Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

  ~ John W. Gardner quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Happiness, Talent, Power

• The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

  ~ Virginia Woolf quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Life, Happiness

• "Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and America: Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run -- in the long-run, I say! -- success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it."

  ~ Viktor Frankl quotes from Man's Search for Meaning

  Self-Development Quotes on: Goals, Success, Happiness, Knowledge, Student

• I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

  ~ Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Life, Happiness

• "From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received."

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

  Famous Quotes on: Love, Life, Happiness

• "At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift--a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life."~ Daniel Goleman, author of "Emotional Intelligence," commenting on "Authentic Happiness" by Martin Seligman

  ~ Daniel Goleman quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Happiness, Life, Motion

• A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

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