Quotes About Happiness

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.

Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.

Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?

The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.