Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
-Steven Kloves
"The movie, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong’.
-Marianne Williamson
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or body’s satisfaction.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault
Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.
-Jenny O'connell
"The Book of Luke"
