Happiness Quotes - Page 157

The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful.

When you are happy, when you are laughing, when you are loving, the radiance of your Soul shines through, and all are lifted by it.

There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.

Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

The more you strive and search for happiness, the more you overlook the possibility that it is here already.

Happiness is free, there are no conditions.

So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it.

Man's life is a progress, not a station.

Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.

This is what meditation is all about, just becoming a watcher. Failure comes, success comes, you are praised, you are condemned, you are respected, you are insulted - all kinds of things come, they are all dualities. And you go on watching. Watching the duality, a third force arises in you; a third dimension arises in you. The duality means two dimensions: one dimension is happiness; another is unhappiness. Watching both, a depth arises in you: the third dimension, witnessing, sakshin.

You will find a blissfulness which contains in it sadness also, because that sadness gives it depth. Watch Buddha's statue - blissful, but still sad. The very word sad gives you wrong connotations - that something is wrong. This is your interpretation. To me, life in its totality is good.

Misery makes you special. Misery makes you more egoistic. A miserable man can have a more concentrated ego than a happy man. A happy man really cannot have the ego, because a person becomes happy only when there is no ego. The more egoless, the more happy; the more happy, the more egoless. You dissolve into happiness. You cannot exist together with happiness; you exist only when there is misery. In happiness there is dissolution.

A life of both sadness and blissfulness is multi-dimensional; it moves in all dimensions together. Watch the statue of Buddha or sometimes look into my eyes and you will find both together - a blissfulness, a peace, a sadness also.

That is truth. In that truth, there is real happiness. And there is nothing that could disturb that happiness.

Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

Wine is a sign of happiness, love and plenty, how many of our adolescents and young people sense that these are no longer found in their homes? How many women, sad and lonely, wonder when love left, when it slipped away from their lives? How many elderly people feel left out of family celebrations, cast aside and longing each day for a little love?

I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

Find happiness by enjoying the journey, not by awaiting the destination.

You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.