Happiness Quotes
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
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There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.
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Freedom for me is the sacred right to think ... education is the fundamental part for social happiness: it is the principle on which liberty rests, and the growth of all towns.
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The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.
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My only intention is that they live without fear of me, that they may trust me and that I may give them happiness, not sorrow. Furthermore, they should understand that the king will forgive those who can be forgiven, and that he wishes to encourage them to practice Dhamma so that they may attain happiness in this world and the next.
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Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.
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Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but what happens inside of you.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
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It's such a happiness when good people get together.
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All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.
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The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.
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There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.
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And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another.
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
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Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
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O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.
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If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.
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The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
