Nick Vujicic Quotes

The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when... When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job. When I get the relationship,’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy.

Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.

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

Possessions only provide temporary happiness.

Those who run after happiness will never be happy. Happiness is something that has to come to the fore from within.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.

I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

It is not possible to sin enough to be happy. It isn't possible to buy enough to be happy, or to entertain or indulge or pamper ourselves enough to be happy. It is not possible to hide enough or run far enough away from trials and troubles to be happy. Happiness and joy come only when we are living up to who we are... I have never met anyone who was happier because he was immoral, or because he was addicted to something, or because he was dishonest and compromised his integrity.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it is often our pursuit of material possessions that causes our problems. If we want ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering, we must engage in the supreme practices of training the mind. There is no other way.

I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness.

Happiness has nothing to do with what you have or don't have. Happiness is related to what you are. However many things you may collect, perhaps they may increase your worries, your troubles, but happiness will not increase because of them. Certainly unhappiness will increase with them, but they have no relation to an increase in your happiness.

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.

Appearances have very little to do with happiness.

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

True happiness isn't something that can be made. It isn't the result of anything. Happiness comes to those who understand that you can't seek it any more than you seek the air you breathe. It is a part of life to be found within living. ... All pursuit of happiness is based upon the false assumption that there is a way to possess it; you may as well try to grab a handful of breeze! Happiness is the natural expression of a stress-free life, just as sunlight naturally warms the Earth after dark clouds appear.

Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

All that you need in order to have total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are.

Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.