Quotes About Awareness

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.

True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.

If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.

Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.

Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now.

We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

In order for the light of gratitude and happiness to shine so brightly, the darkness of how it could be worse must be present.

Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.

Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.

When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.