Happiness Quotes - Page 68

Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.

Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.

By changing nothing, nothing changes.

The desire for true happiness is nothing to feel ashamed about.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.

The fruit does not come from the outside, the fruit is created within you. Whatever you do, you develop receptivity for it inside yourself. Someone who wants love should give his love. Someone who wants bliss should start sharing his bliss. Someone who wants flowers to shower in his home should shower flowers in other people's homes. There is no other way. So compassion is an emotion that each person has to develop in order to enter into meditation.

Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you.

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success.

Great master Lao Tzu says that 'The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.' Giving is indeed a very good source of happiness! One of the best treasures a man can give to someone is a good and sound idea; because birds can ascend into the sky only with wings, and men, only with good and sound ideas!

Don't Worry Be Happy

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.