Happiness Quotes

The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime.

Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

One of the fundamental conditions of happiness is to know that everything that one does has a meaning in eternity

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

Beauty comes from the happiness within.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.

The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world has sprung into existence.

Why worry about these small, small things? I don't stress. You never hear of anyone dying of happiness.

To fully enjoy life, to derive its greatest meaning and beauty, one needs to enter into it with not only the look of involvement and happiness, but the spirit of involvement as well.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.

Peace begins with a smile.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.

The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.

In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.

The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now.

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.

Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness will find you.

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

Your happiness depends on you alone.