Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
Quotations
Happiness
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
-Melisa De La Cruz
"The Van Alen Legacy"
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
-Haruki Murakami
"Kafka on the Shore"
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Dear John"
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
