{"quotes":[{"text":"Seeking external validation brings disappointment. Validate yourself from within to find true happiness.","author":"Amy Leigh Mercree","tags":["happiness","inspirational","about-life","of-the-day","of-the-week","twitter","self-acceptance","self-love","the-compassion-revolution","true-happiness","validation"],"id":1264,"author_id":"Amy+Leigh+Mercree"},{"text":"Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109).","author":"Jean-Yves Leloup","tags":["breakups","emotional-wounds","happiness","hardships","self-image","suffering","true-happiness","well-being"],"id":53319,"author_id":"Jean-Yves+Leloup"},{"text":"Unless and until you give happiness to others you truly cannot be happy.","author":"Amit Abraham","tags":["happiness","true-happiness"],"id":70143,"author_id":"Amit+Abraham"},{"text":"Learn to be your own best friend first then you will find true happiness, because happiness is from within.","author":"Gift Gugu Mona","tags":["best-friend","find","first","learn","life-philosophy","true-happiness","within"],"id":81858,"author_id":"Gift+Gugu+Mona"},{"text":"The commencement of true happiness is the realization that your happiness begins with you.","author":"Ogwo David Emenike","tags":["happiness","happy","inspirational","motivational","true-happiness"],"id":118064,"author_id":"Ogwo+David+Emenike"},{"text":"It's normal for us to become unhappy for a while due to how circumstances in life treat us, but it is ungodly for us to be ungrateful for these circumstances that make us unhappy!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["be-grateful","challenges","circumstance","circumstances","content","food-for-thought","give-thanks","grateful","happy","israelmore-ayivor","life","life-experience","life-lessons","love-god","normal","treat","true-happiness","ungodly","ungrateful","unhappy"],"id":121691,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"If you are looking for true happiness, you have to change your level of consciousness and deepness of awareness.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["awareness","debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-m-d","inspirational","philosophy","quotes","true-happiness"],"id":129833,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"To buy a cake... To howl at the moon... To know true happiness... I am happy.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["being-happy","buying-a-cake","cake","happiness","howl-at-the-moon","inspirational","inspirational","moon","true-happiness"],"id":187331,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"What is called true happiness? It is 'chit prasannta' (blissful state of chit). The person who has attained 'chit prasannta', he need not beg for anything in this world!","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["beg","bliss","blissful-state","chit","happiness","spiritual","spiritual","true-happiness"],"id":205580,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"True happiness cannot not be achieved through wealth, fame or action, But through love, modesty and self satisfaction.","author":"Mouloud Benzadi","tags":["action","fame","happiness","happy","mouloud-benzadi","true-happiness","wealth"],"id":215909,"author_id":"Mouloud+Benzadi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}