Happiness Quotes
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If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.
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I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
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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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Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.
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The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.
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We often think the only way to create happiness is to try to control the outer circumstances of our lives, to try to fix what seems wrong or to get rid of everything that bothers us. But the real problem lies in our reaction to those circumstances. What we have to change is the mind and the way it experiences reality.
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We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.
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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
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How glorious and near to the angels is youth that is clean. This youth has joy unspeakable here and eternal happiness hereafter. Sexual purity is youth's most precious possession. It is the foundation of all righteousness.
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
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The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.
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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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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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I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
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All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.
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When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.
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You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
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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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Every single one of us already has everything we need to be the happiest person on earth; it's simply up to us to remember that in every moment.
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Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.
