Quotes About Happiness

Happiness, or at least peace, is the sense that nothing is missing in this moment. No desires running amok. It's okay to have a desire. But pick a big one and pick it carefully. Drop the small ones.

If you want to be successful, surround yourself with people who are more successful than you are, but if you want to be happy, surround yourself with people who are less successful than you are.

There is no way to happiness—happiness is the way." –THICH NHAT HANH Vietnamese Buddhist monk and Nobel

Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

Happiness, or at least peace, is the sense that nothing is missing in this moment.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness,

People don't want to be millionaires—they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.

Once you have enough for beans and rice and taking care of your family and a few other things, money is a story. You can tell yourself any story you want about money, and it's better to tell yourself a story about money that you can happily live with.

You should set up your life so that it is as comfortable and happy as possible—and so that it accommodates your creative work.

Over the ensuing days, however, I realized that everyone seemed to be discussing how to build large and successful companies, sell out, and live the good life. Fair enough. The question no one really seemed to be asking or answering was, Why do it all in the first place? What is the pot of gold that justifies spending the best years of your life hoping for happiness in the last?

Quizá la acción no traiga siempre consigo la felicidad, pero no hay felicidad sin acción.»

Aquí tienes un resumen muy simplificado: El «éxito» no tiene por qué ser complicado. Basta con empezar haciendo muy muy felices a mil personas.

If you don't believe in an afterlife, then you [should realize] that this is such a short and precious life, it is really important that you don't spend it being unhappy. There is no excuse for spending most of your life in misery.

2. Loving-Kindness and the Happiest Day in 7 Years

Success should not be measured by financial gain; true success is doing something you love for a living.

Success" need not be complicated. Just start with making 1,000 people extremely, extremely happy.

The Conquest of Happiness

Ilusión es el sinónimo llevado a la práctica de felicidad y es precisamente lo que deberías aspirar a conseguir. Es el curalotodo. Cuando te aconsejan que te dediques a tu «pasión» o a «lo que te haga feliz», en mi opinión se están refiriendo al mismo concepto: ilusión. Lo que nos devuelve a donde partimos. La pregunta que debes hacerte no es «¿Qué quiero?» o «¿Cuáles son mis objetivos?», sino «¿Qué me hace ilusión?».

Bliss is the highest peak of what brings you joy.

Don't worry about making money. Don't stress about having a plan. Don't think about networking or setting yourself up for the next thing. Try as hard as you possibly can to find something you love, because the depressing reality is that most people never find a career that they're truly passionate about.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace." –Chuck Palahniuk Famed

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

Happiness shared in the form of friendships and love is happiness multiplied.

21-Day No Complaint experiment that I've written about before on my blog (fourhourblog.com):