Happiness Quotes
Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.
If we immerse ourselves in the ultimate good, we will have this silly smile on our face or perhaps just inside our hearts. That is what illumination is.
The key to happiness, in my opinion, is taking the time to find out what your spirit wants you to do, and doing it.
The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.
Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.
Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.
Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.
Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is the happiness.
All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind.
Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.
When you experience the light, voila, you're happy. The very nature of the light is happiness. You don't have to do anything or be anybody special.
What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.
It is not simply a transient happiness that you experience in meditation that creates balance; it is a transformative light. Inner light is the most powerful thing there is.
Enlightenment is really worth seeking. It is the only thing that gives you permanent happiness. When you experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, everything is alright.
Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.
Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!
What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.
Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!
The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?
The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.
To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness
Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?
Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.
For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'
Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.
My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!
For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.
It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.
There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.
Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.
When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.
After initial needs are metenough food, shelter, comfortthere is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.
