Desire Quote by Matthieu Ricard

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment.

— Matthieu Ricard

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

— Daisaku Ikeda

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

Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on…

— Albert Ellis

Happiness consists not in having what you want, but in wanting what you have.

— Nishan Panwar

Happiness is living by inner purpose.

— David W Augsburger

Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

— Leo Buscaglia

Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

— Jonathan Haidt

Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want.

— Ethan Hawke

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

— Helen Keller

“Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

— Hellen Keller