Quotes on Happiness

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel -or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

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.

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't

close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the army! I have for long been convinced that, to safeguard the country and give happiness to the people, it is necessary first of all to prove once more to the world that our army is still the old Turkish army.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.