Quotes About Happiness

He who is not content with what he has will not be content with what he would like to have.

Now it is time that we are going, I to die and you to live; but which of us has the happier prospect is unknown to anyone but God

By all means marry,if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher".

He who is not contented with what he has, will not be contented with what he would like to have.

Criton - Le principe, que l'important n'est pas de vivre, mais de bien vivre.

the tan lines will fade but the memories last forever <3

The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, Those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, Like they who lick the honey from a razor's edge. How pitiful they who cling strongly to concrete reality: Turn your attention within, my heart friends.5

The still revolutionary insight of Buddhism is that life and death are in the mind, and nowhere else. Mind is revealed as the universal basis of experience—the creator of happiness and the creator of suffering, the creator of what we call life and what we call death.

Shantideva said: Whatever joy there is in this world All comes from desiring others to be happy, And whatever suffering there is in this world All comes from desiring myself to be happy.

William Blake:   He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.7

What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The buddhas work for the benefit of others. Just look at the difference between them. If I do not exchange my happiness For the suffering of others, I shall not attain the state of buddhahood And even in samsara I shall have no real joy.

William Blake: He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.7

After all," the Dalai Lama explains, "all human beings are the same—made of human flesh, bones, and blood. We all want happiness and want to avoid suffering. Further, we have an equal right to be happy. In other words, it is important to realize our sameness as human beings."3

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

As I breathe in, I am taking on the suffering of my friend or others, and as I breathe out, I am giving him or them happiness and peace.

En la mayoría de nosotros, no obstante, el karma y las emociones negativas oscurecen la capacidad de ver nuestra propia naturaleza intrínseca y la naturaleza de la realidad. En consecuencia, nos aferramos a la felicidad y al sufrimiento como si fueran reales, y con nuestras acciones ignorantes y carentes de habilidad seguimos sembrando las semillas de nuestro siguiente nacimiento.

contemporary master, Nyoshul Khenpo: The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, Those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, Like they who lick the honey from a razor's edge. How pitiful they who cling strongly to concrete reality: Turn your attention within, my heart friends.

It means a person, any person, who has completely awakened from ignorance and opened to his or her vast potential of wisdom. A buddha is one who has brought a final end to suffering and frustration, and discovered a lasting and deathless happiness and peace.

If this elephant of mind is bound on all sides by the cord of mindfulness, All fear disappears and complete happiness comes. All enemies: all the tigers, lions, elephants, bears, serpents [of our emotions];2 And all the keepers of hell; the demons and the horrors, All of these are bound by the mastery of your mind, And by the taming of that one mind, all are subdued, Because from the mind are derived all fears and immeasurable sorrows.

William Blake: He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.

By the power and the truth of this practice: May all sentient beings enjoy happiness and the causes of happiness; May they be free from suffering and the causes of suffering; May they never be separated from the great happiness devoid of suffering, And may they dwell in the great equanimity that is free from attachment and aversion.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern slave, fed, clothed, whipped and protected by his master, is happier than the free colored citizen of the North. To that conclusion I have never since arrived.