Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
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.
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.
When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.
As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger and attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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?
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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