Quotes About Happiness

Y, de nuevo, quien ama sale ganando, aunque no busque ninguna recompensa.

Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others from becoming paralysed by depression, loneliness and difficulties.

Mnogi ljudi gube male radosti nadaju?i se za veliku sre?u. -

You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad

It was Wang Lung's marriage day.

If the belly is full," she said, "if we could know that it would always be full, men would be idle and laugh and play games like children, and then we would have peace and happiness.

But the important lesson which he taught me was that if one would be happy he must not raise his head above his neighbor's. "He who raises his head above the heads of others," Mr. Kung said, "will sooner or later be decapitated.

if one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone.

I am entirely happy except that I feel the need of more knowledge of some sort. What sort I do not know myself." "Perhaps it is not so much knowledge as more understanding of that which you already know

You cannot be happy unless you understand that life is sad.

Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy to sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

He laughed because he was free.

Déjame estar triste, es la única forma que conozco de estrujar la felicidad para que después no me pene.

If we start with that, with wanting girls to see themselves from the inside out rather than outside in , we will go a long way toward helping them find their true happily-ever-afters.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.

The more we make friends with ourselves, the more we can see that our ways of shutting down and closing off are rooted in the mistaken thinking that the way to get happy is to blame somebody else.

What causes misery is always trying to get away from the facts of life, always trying to avoid pain and seek happiness—this sense of ours that there could be lasting security and happiness available to us if we could only do the right thing.

We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.

WE can learn to rejoice in even the smallest blessings our life holds. It is easy to miss our own good fortune; often happiness comes in ways we don't even notice.

You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace; you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just "gimme a break!" But the more you think that way, the more you try to get life to come out so that it will always suit you, the more your fear of other people and what's outside your room grows.

Leonard Cohen once said about the benefits of many years of meditation, "The less there was of me, the happier I got." Letting

We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more aware of what causes happiness as well as what causes distress.

May all sentient beings enjoy happiness and the root of happiness. May we be free from suffering and the root of suffering. May we not be separated from the great happiness devoid of suffering. May we dwell in the great equanimity free from passion, aggression, and prejudice.

Happiness "disappears in a moment," he says, "like a dewdrop on a blade of grass."* Basing your comfort on things that don't last is a futile strategy for living.