Happiness Quotes
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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
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What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.
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When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.
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I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange...
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Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
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Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.
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Smile ..... Expand HappinesS.
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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
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Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories.
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This is the testimony of all the good books, sermons, hymns, and memoirs I read--that God's ways are infinitely perfect; that we are to love Him for what He is and therefore equally as much when He afflicts as when He prospers us; that there is no real happiness but in doing and suffering His will; and that this life is but a scene of probation through which we pass to the real life above.
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Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.
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Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.
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I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.
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Every morning when we wake up we've been given a wonderful gift-another day of life-so let's make the most of it. No one can do it for us. . . . Genuine happiness can only be realized once we commit to making it a personal priority in our lives. This may be a new behavior for some of us and a bit intimidating. Be gentle with yourself. It will all unfold. Like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.
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Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.
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Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.
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Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.
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Don't put off joy and happiness. Strive to live each day to its fullest, squeezing all the joy you can out of each moment. Instead of measuring your life's value by your progress toward a single goal, remember that the direction you're headed in is more important than temporary results.
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Rather happiness, peace or serenity is our natural state. Beneath all of what we add to our feelings and experience, beneath our self-contraction, lies serenity Itself.
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I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.
