Explore Quotes on Happiness

Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook." And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they're doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel-and then, you'll love them all. Because the only reason you don't love them, is because you're using them as your excuse to not feel good.

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.

Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop.

One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to me. There's plenty of research about people having a baseline of happiness that doesn't vary much with circumstances. And given that happy people are typically optimistic, energetic, and fun to work with, I can see how happiness would lead to success.

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

The secret art of inviting happiness The miraculous medicine of all diseases Just for today, do not anger Do not worry and be filled with gratitude Devote yourself to your work. Be kind to people. Every morning and evening, join your hands in prayer. Pray these words to your heart and chant these words with your mouth Usui Reiki Treatment for the improvement of body and mind

The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!

Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful.

O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.

It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort

You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.

Break open the forbidden happiness.

What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy. The happiness of every living thing is what we want.

Join with those who sing songs, tell stories, enjoy life ... because happiness is contagious. Join those who walk with their heads high even when they have tears in their eyes. Avoid those who ... have never shed a tear

It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

Sometimes we don't know what's best until we're forced into it. Often you can be just as happy or even happier with less.