Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
Realize that true happiness lies within you.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.
If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?
Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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