Quotes About Happiness

Non è che ognuno nasca libero e uguale, come dice la Costituzione, ma ognuno vien fatto uguale. Ogni essere umano è a immagine e somiglianza di ogni altro; dopo di che tutti son felici, perché non ci sono montagne che ci scoraggino con la loro altezza da superare, non montagne sullo sfondo delle quali si debba misurare la nostra statura! Ecco perché un libro è un fucile carico, nella casa del tuo vicino.

Now, look, since when did you think being good meant being happy?" "Since always." "Since now learn otherwise. Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the biggest load of sin. There are smiles and smiles; learn to tell the dark variety from the light. The seal-barker, the laugh-shouter, half the time he's covering up. He's had his fun and he's guilty. And men do love sin

I woke this morning and said to myself, 'Charlie, this is swell, living. Keep doing it!

What a tragedy that he thought the precious blood of the Savior was shed simply to make him happy in this life, rather than to make him prepared for the next one.

El yogui hindú, luchando por la liberación, se identifica con la Luz y nunca regresa. Pero nadie con la voluntad de servir a otros se permitiría semejante evasión. El objetivo último de la hazaña no debe ser ni la liberación ni la felicidad personales, sino la sabiduría y el poder para servir a los demás».

Who knows what true happiness is, not the conventional word.. but the naked terror. To the lonely themselves, that wears a mask, the most miserable outcast hugs some memory.. or some illusion.

I have been very happy—very fortunate—very proud,' she went on. 'Too fortunate. Too happy for a little while. And now I am unhappy for—for life.

Formerly, in solitude and in silence, he had been used to think clearly and sometimes even profoundly, seeing life outside the flattering optical delusion of everlasting hope, of conventional self-deceptions, of an ever-expected happiness.

But at the corner I stopped to take my last look at the crew of the Narcissus. They were swaying irresolute and noisy on the broad flagstones before the Mint. They were bound for the Black Horse, where men, in fur caps with brutal faces and in shirt sleeves, dispense out of varnished barrels the illusions of strength, mirth, happiness; the illusion of splendor and poetry of life, to the paid-off crews of southern-going ships.

He was a dismal man,with a perpetual tear sparkling at the end of his nose,who either had been in trouble,or was in trouble,or expected to be in trouble – couldn't be happy unless something went wrong.

man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity.

Bette Newboldt, our unappeasable feminist whom, I'm fairly certain, God Himself could not have made happy;

Mindfulness, the Root of Happiness

Covetousness keeps the mind agitated and unhappy, far from the peace of contentment.

All beings are the heirs of their own karma. Their happiness or unhappiness depends on their actions, not upon my wishes.

In our own culture, we might call it "catalogue consciousness," obsessively rifling through the pages to see what else we might want. It's "wanting to want," and it's a disease our culture keeps nourishing.

Mind is the forerunner of all things. Speak or act with peaceful mind, happiness follows like a shadow that never leaves.4

Through mindful attention in the moment, we see the impermanent nature of phenomena and understand the happiness of nongrasping.

Generosity, morality, respect, service, listening to the Dharma, and meditation—these are actions for the good. Each one is a practice that can be cultivated and further refined, becoming the causes for our own happiness and the happiness of others.

Buddhism is a clever way to enjoy life. Happiness is available. Please help yourselves to it.

Mind is the forerunner of all things. Speak or act with an impure mind, suffering follows as the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox.     Mind is the forerunner of all things. Speak or act with peaceful mind, happiness follows like a shadow that never leaves.

that, when it comes to humanity, "the perfection of our nature and capability of happiness, must be estimated by the degree of reason, virtue, and knowledge, that distinguish the individual, and direct the laws which bind society.

I used to think it was immoral to be unhappy.

It takes very little to make us [women] happy, and more than is contained in heaven and earth to keep us that way