Quotes About Happiness

When I realize I'm triggered, I think of it as a neutral moment, a moment in time, a moment of truth that can go either way. What I'm advocating is that in that precious moment we start to make choices that lead to happiness and freedom rather than choices that lead to unnecessary suffering and the obscuration of our intelligence, our warmth, our capacity to remain open and present with the natural movement of life.

Acknowledging the preciousness of each day is a good way to live, a good way to reconnect with our basic joy.

We suffer... because of three tragic misunderstandings. First, we expect that what is always in the process of change should be graspable and predictable... Second, we proceed as if we are separate from everything else, as if we are a fixed identity, when our true situation is egoless... Third, we look for happiness in all the wrong places. The Buddha called this habit "mistaking suffering for happiness.

there's more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

Impermanence can teach you a lot about how to cheer up.

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

Be alert! Some people have problems. Don't let them be your problem and don't ever allow their problems to infect you through their words and actions! Stay happy!

Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

Nobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt.

The noblest art is that of making others happy

Above all, art should be fun.

She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away.

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

Keep doing what you like to do. That's all it is.

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

It's a divine art to be cheerful.