Quotes About Happiness

The uncontrolled mind Does not guess that the Atman is present: How can it meditate? Without meditation, where is peace? Without peace, where is happiness? (Bhagavad Gita, II. 62, 63, 65)

It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the man in his intellect, and the god in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful. To him who desires nothing, and does not mix himself up with them, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

Therefore the highest utility for mankind is to find this happiness in the Spirit.

After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers, and that he learns as much from evil as from good.

To the Yogi everything is bliss, every human face that he sees brings cheerfulness to him. That is the sign of a virtuous man.

Good and evil have an equal share in moulding character, and in some instances misery is a greater teacher than happiness.

always keep your mind joyful; if melancholy thoughts come, kick them out.

The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for.

it would be found that it was misery that taught more than happiness, it was poverty that taught more than wealth, it was blows that brought out their inner fire more than praise. Now

Spiritual knowledge is the only thing that can destroy our miseries for ever;

T he happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves

Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow.

Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.

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Wholeness feels like gratitude. Gratitude that we are safe and happy and together.

People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

Being able to do exactly as one pleases is the surest way to remain perpetually unpleased.

All this, sadly enough, is truer of the more educated, higher-income, professional families. It is here that the competition is the greatest, the expectations most elevated. If the boy would be happier as a telephone linesman or a forest ranger, he is in a hopeless bind. His goals have been set for him by his milieu, and he cannot be his own man; so he simply refuses to play the game. He "does not try.

Serenely full, the epicure would say,Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.