Sheri L. Dew Quotes

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

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

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

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists i have not found it

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

you already possess all you need to be genuinely happy.

Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.

I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.

Happiness is living by inner purpose.

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

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

I'm comfortable with the life I have.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.

You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.