Quotes on Happiness

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face.

The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of the heart's existence is in this calm equable light, even although it be only moonshine or twilight. Now the mind alone can obtain for us this heavenly cheerfulness and peace.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.

Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.

The desire for total happiness and for ultimate freedom lies dormant in everyone. It is in the form of a seed. It is like a seed that contains a tree within it. In the same way, the fulfillment of man's ultimate desire is hidden in his very nature. In its perfectly developed state, it is our nature to be happy, to be free. Our real nature is the only thing that is true, and only perfecting it can bring complete satisfaction.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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

I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.