Quotes on Pursuing Happiness

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

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