Quotes About Happiness

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your plate

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

You've got to love life to have life, and you've got to have life to love life.

When God loves a creature He wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery—then he can die. He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is His best gift.

You've got to love life to have life, and you've got to have life to love life. . . . It's what they call a vicious circle.

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you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life

Suddenly she bent down and kissed his fingers and went quickly away. But he sat for a long time in the gathering clouds trembling with happiness and trying to penetrate into the meaning of these things.

I'll take you by the hand and show a world you can understand,this life is filled with hurt when happiness doesnt hurt.

Why worry, if today be sweet'?

Mithai teach me big lesson--it easier to love someone if you can make them happy.

But surely, she argued with herself, life was more than this relentless getting ahead? Surely, there was more to life than self-actualization and ambition and success? What was wrong with linking one's happiness to that of another human being? Why should fifty years of peak capitalism eradicate something that the Eastern philosophers had taught for thousands of years—that life is about interconnectedness, interdependence, and yes, even sacrifice?

Like a musician, the Pathan had learned how to make a song out of his loneliness. Like a magician, he had learned how to use sheer air to contort limp pieces of rubber into objects of happiness. Empty-handed, he had built a world.

She would wait until she wandered around this room filled with people she knew and loved, until she had wished every last one of them a new year filled with hope and dreams and yearning. She would not wish any of them success or prosperity or wealth because the magic was in the dreaming. She knew that now. America had taught her that. How wise, to talk about the pursuit of happiness and not of happiness itself.

Si deseas cada gozo, renuncia por completo a todo apego. Abandonando todo apego por completo, se halla el éxtasis más excelente.

The disturbing attitudes and negative emotions, such as clinging attachment, anger, and ignorance are the real source of our unhappiness.

When Buddha spoke about suffering, he meant that we have unsatisfactory experiences. Even the happiness we have does not last forever, and that situation is unsatisfactory. The causes of our problems lie not in the external environment and those inhabiting it, but in our own mind. The disturbing attitudes and negative emotions, such as clinging attachment, anger, and ignorance are the real source of our unhappiness.

El budismo nos guía hacia la felicidad suprema, la cual proviene de la transformación de nuestra mente. Buda observó que cuando estamos apegados a los objetos de los sentidos, nos sentimos finalmente desdichados.

Ciertas ideas erróneas básicas alimentan nuestro apego. Estas son: (1) que las cosas, las personas y las relaciones no cambian; (2) que nos pueden proporcionar felicidad duradera; (3) que son puras; y (4) que poseen una esencia real y brillante.

La felicidad, –y también la tristeza–, no se cruzan en nuestro camino por casualidad o accidente, ni se deben a que logremos apaciguar a algún ser superior imaginario. Como todas las cosas, en el universo la felicidad surge debido a causas específicas. Si creamos las causas para la felicidad, la felicidad resultante llegará. Este es un proceso sistemático de causa y efecto que se explicará en capítulos posteriores.

Las causas de nuestros problemas residen, no en el entorno exterior y quienes lo habitan, sino en nuestra propia mente. Las actitudes perturbadoras y las emociones negativas, como el apego excesivo, la ira y la ignorancia, son el verdadero origen de nuestra infelicidad.

Como línea maestra, Buda aconsejó que evitásemos diez acciones que destruyen nuestra felicidad y la de los demás. Tres de ellas son físicas: matar, robar, y mantener una conducta sexual imprudente o poco aconsejable. Otras cuatro son verbales: mentir, calumniar, insultar, y conversar de un modo frívolo. Y tres son mentales: codiciar las posesiones ajenas, pensar con malicia y mantener visiones erróneas.

It is never too late. Even if you are going to die tomorrow, Keep yourself straight and clear and be a happy human being today. If you keep your situation happy day by day, you will eventually reach the greatest happiness of enlightenment. – Lama Yeshe

Without understanding how your inner nature evolves, how can you possibly discover eternal happiness? Where is eternal happiness? It's not in the sky or in the jungle; you won't find it in the air or under the ground. Everlasting happiness is within you, within your psyche, your consciousness, your mind. That's why it is so important that you investigate the nature of your own mind.