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Happiness And Meaning Quotes About Finding Purpose

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne

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

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
Marianne Williamson

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
Leo Rosten

Happiness And Meaning Quotes About Living In The Present

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh

The only way to live is to accept each moment as an unrepeatable miracle.
Tara Brach

Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey. Happiness is not tomorrow, it is now. Happiness is not a dependency, it is a decision. Happiness is what you are, not what you have.
Zig Ziglar

The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all moments.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

The present moment is all you ever have.
Eckhart Tolle

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton

The present moment is a powerful goddess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness And Meaning Quotes About Relationships

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most important thing in life is to love and be loved.
Unknown

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

The best way to find happiness is not to search for it, but to create it with the people you love.
Unknown

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz

Happiness And Meaning Quotes About Success

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

The true meaning of success is not about acquiring more wealth or power, but about finding happiness and fulfillment in the journey.
Tony Robbins

Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure.
Tony Robbins

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.
Unknown

Happiness And Meaning Quotes About Spirituality

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell

Happiness And Meaning Quotes About Personal Growth

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli

Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Zig Ziglar

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness And Meaning Quotes About Mindfulness

The little things we do in life may not seem to have a direct bearing on spirituality, but they reflect the integrity of our inner being.
Eknath Easwaran

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
Tara Brach

Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
Thich Nhat Hanh

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha

Happiness And Meaning Quotes About Joy

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn

Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
Valerie Bertinelli

Happiness And Meaning Quotes About Love

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The greatest happiness in life is the certainty that we are loved.
Victor Hugo

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak

The greatest happiness you can give another is the purity of your own joy.
Richard Bach

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into actions.
Madame de Stael

Happiness And Meaning Quotes About Fulfillment

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson

Happiness And Meaning Quotes About Balance

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

Happiness is not what you get, but what you give.
Unknown

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle

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

Happiness And Meaning Quotes About Authenticity

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.
Brene Brown

Happiness And Meaning Quotes About Resilience

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
Robert Jordan

Happiness And Meaning Quotes About Gratitude

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie

Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker’s life – in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.
Sri Chinmoy

Gratitude is the foundation of a happy life.
Unknown

Happiness And Meaning Quotes About Self-Discovery

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James

The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Carl Jung

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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