Quotes on True Happiness

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

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

With all the strength of my soul I urge you young people to approach the Communion table as often as you can. Feed on this bread of angels whence you will draw all the energy you need to fight inner battles. Because true happiness, dear friends, does not consist in the pleasures of the world or in earthly things, but in peace of conscience, which we have only if we are pure in heart and mind.

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

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

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don't regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren't meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.

Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems,but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice, and to learn.

To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.