Quotes About Happiness

Real peace is happiness. Pleasures do not form happiness.

Because of the grades in misery and happiness, the released ones, the jivanmuktas and videhamuktas, may be spoken of as belonging to four categories — Brahmavid, Brahmavara, Brahmavariya and Brahmavarishtha. But these distinctions are from the standpoint of the others who look at them; in reality, however, there are no distinctions in release gained through jnana.

As all living beings desire to be happy always, without misery, as in the case of everyone there is observed supreme love for one's self, and as happiness alone is the cause for love, in order to gain that happiness which is one's nature and which is experienced in the state of deep sleep when there is no mind, one should know one's self. For that, the path of knowledge, the inquiry of the form "Who am I?", is the principal means.

Man's real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true self. His search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true self. The true self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.

Cuando el mundo desaparece, es decir, cuando no hay pensamiento, la mente experimenta la felicidad, y cuando el mundo aparece, se hunde en la desdicha.

When the world disappears, i.e., when there is no thought, the mind experience happiness; and when the world appears, it goes through misery.

We imagine through our ignorance that we derive happiness from objects.

There is a state beyond our efforts or effortlessness. Until it is realised effort is necessary. After tasting such Bliss, even once, one will repeatedly try to regain it. Having once experienced the Bliss of Peace no one would like to be out of it or engaged himself otherwise.

De qué sirve atribuir a los sucesos de la vida la causa de la desdicha que está realmente dentro de ti? ¿Qué felicidad puedes obtener de las cosas que te son ajenas? Y cuando la obtengas, ¿cuánto durará?

A man conscious of his pain is more real than a man who is unconscious of his happiness thus exhibiting his unreal nature.

Honestly, the point is I no more expect you to acknowledge or respect my feelings, there ends your story! HAPPY ME!

No man has ever expressed his happiness nor his sorrow in the same intensity he experienced! ~ ramana pemmaraju

Only two unhappy people can be happy with each other, because they are dependent on the 'other' for happiness. Only an INDIVIDUAL relishes in his own presence, the 'other' is a hindrance to his freedom. He doesn't fit with the society, he stands out from the mediocre, he lives in 'totality' and celebrates in aloneness.

Sing your way to Ecstasy!"

The heights of self-torment is not acting on what makes you feel good!

To be happy with your woman, make her emotional, but never become emotional!"

The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.

Simply put, the best revenge is to live an awesome life.

What nourishes you is not vitamins in food. It is the joy you feel in eating it.

It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody's hair fizzes in the wind. Where it doesn't rain, your shoes stay comfortable all day, and everybody's jokes are funny.

Loving what you do, doing what you love

The hunter and the mermaid were so different from each other that it seemed to them, finally, that they were exactly alike; and they lived together and were happy.

The days went by for him, all different and all the same. The boy was happy, and yet he didn't know that he was happy, exactly: he couldn't remember having been unhappy. If one day as he played at the edge of the forest some talking bird had flown down and asked him: "Do you like your life" he would not have known what to say, but would have asked the bird: "Can you not like it?

Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods but less goodwill. More of virtually everything save that which the human spirit requires. So distracted have we become sating this new need or that material appetite, we hardly noticed the departure of happiness