Happiness Quotes - Page 76

Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness is sin, only to be miserable is sin. To be happy is virtue because a happy person will not create unhappiness for others. Only a happy person can be a ground for others' happiness.

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

True happiness lies within you.

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.

For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

The days that make us happy make us wise

Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.

Laughter drives shouting away.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.