Happiness Quotes - Page 78

We have the ability to effect a great positive change in the world, starting with the training of our own minds and the overcoming of our deluded conditioning. Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness; it is a revolutionary stance from the inside out, for the benefits of all beings in existence.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

The key to happiness is to get the spirit and keep it.

When you're happy for no reason, you're unconditionally happy. It's not that your life always looks perfect - it's just that however it looks, you'll still be happy.

To miss out on joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence.

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Little deeds of kindness Little words of love; Help to make earth an Eden Like the heaven above.

All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they are now; and they are possible to them chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over plowshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope: these are the things that make people happy.

Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.

You can be happy where you are.

Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

We know that we are happy when our mind is peaceful, and unhappy when it is not. It is therefore clear that our happiness depends upon our having a peaceful mind and not on good external conditions. Even if our external conditions are poor, if we maintain a peaceful mind all the time we shall always be happy.

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an avenue for the Well-being to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions, benefits by the infusion of your Well-being.