Quotes on Inner Happiness

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

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.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

Peace starts within each one of us. 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 peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

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?