#happiness

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Formula for my happiness: A Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

The backward law: the more you strive for happiness, the further away it retreats.

Human beings are simply unable to live happily without accepting the fundamental insecurity of existence.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with complete and perfect virtue.

For one swallow does not make a spring, nor does one sunny day; and so too one day or a short time does not make a man blessed and happy.

Happiness belongs to those who are self-sufficient.

To live well is to act well; for happiness is not a possession, but an active practice.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

A door of happiness opens outward; anyone who tries to pull it inward only shuts it more tightly.

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we imagine.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

The pleasure of love is in loving, and we are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.

We take more pains to persuade others that we are happy than we do in trying to be so ourselves.

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

Simplicity is the essence of happiness.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

A disciplined mind brings happiness.

If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.

The highest happiness is the peace of Nirvana.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

Never give up your inner happiness for anything or anyone.