Quotes on Happiness

'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.

Remember this: with mind you will always be a loser. Even if you are victorious, your victories will be just defeats. With mind there is no victory, with no-mind there is no defeat. You have to shift your whole consciousness from mind to no-mind. Once no-mind is there, everything is victorious. Once the no-mind is there, nothing goes wrong, nothing can go wrong.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.

The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.

The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.

Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Happiness is in your ability to love others.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.