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"
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
-A Spiritual Leader "Paramahansa Yogananda"
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
-Eric Hoffer
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck "Maurice Maeterlinck"
