Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
-Ramana Maharshi
Quotations
Happiness
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
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
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
-Amit Ray
"Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style"
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise.
-Debra Anastasia
