If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
Quotations
Happiness
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
-André Maurois
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.”
-Scriptures "Chuang Tzu 21"
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
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or body’s satisfaction.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
