Happiness Quotes - Page 36

• Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Factors, Finding Happiness

  "Why We Behave". Book by Maurice Cayem, p. 92, 2009.

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• The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent.” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .

  Ayn Rand

  Happy, Friends, Christmas

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.91, Penguin

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• Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.

  Dalai Lama

  Being Happy, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• There are no happier people on this planet than those who decide that they want something, define what they want, get hold of the feeling of it even before its manifestation and then joyously watch the unfolding as, piece by piece by piece, it begins to unfold. That's the feeling of your hands in the clay.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Happy, Spiritual

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• The key to genuine happiness is in our hands. To think this way is to discover the essential values of kindness, brotherly love and altruism. The more clearly we see the benefits of these values, the more we will seek to reject anything that opposes them; in this way we will be able to bring about inner transformation.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Buddhist, Kindness

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• You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Truth, Taken

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.

  Dalai Lama

  Positive, Peace, Buddhist

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• We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happy, Wisdom

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• Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed even by the most uncomfortable circumstances. If you nurse hatred, however, you will not be happy even in the lap of luxury. Thus, if we really want happiness, we must widen the sphere of love. This is both religious thinking and basic common sense.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Being Happy, Religious

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• Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspirational, Positive, Happy

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• You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Happy, Baseball

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• Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We achieve happiness, prosperity and progress through social interaction. Therefore, having a kind and helpful attitude contributes to our own and others' happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Attitude, Kindness

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• Success is a learnable skill. You can learn to succeed at anything. If you want to be a great golfer, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be a great piano player, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be truly happy, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be rich, you can learn how to do it. It doesn't matter where you are right now. It doesn't matter where you're starting from. What matters is that you are willing to learn.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivational, Happy, Success

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 15, 2015

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• There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile and that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of others. There is no denying that if society suffers, we ourselves suffer, and the more our hearts and minds are afflicted with ill-will, the more miserable we become. We can reject religion, ideology, received wisdom, but we cannot escape the need for love and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Buddhist, Kindness

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• These days, in our materialistic culture, many people are led to believe that money is the ultimate source of happiness. Consequently, when they don’t have enough of it they feel let down. Therefore, it is important to let people know that they have the source of contentment and happiness within themselves, and that it is related to nurturing our natural inner values.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Happy, Wise

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• Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Happy, Wisdom

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.250, Random House

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• A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Happy, Disappointment, Nice

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• But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Pain, Pining

  "The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The early years, 1879-1902".

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• A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.124, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Relationship, Happy

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• And in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean ‘inner selves’, the thing that created the life in the first place. Now consciously, most of us are not aware of this. But if you’re searching for happiness; if you’re searching for tranquility; if you’re searching just to have a nice, peaceful, loving, understanding life... in actual fact, your searching for your inner self.

  Sydney Banks

  Love, Life, Being Happy

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• True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Inspirational, Success, Happy

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• Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

  Storm Jameson

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

  Storm Jameson (1941). “The End of this War”

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• Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Make Others Happy, Chocolate, Benefits

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• Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Buddhist, Mean

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