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"
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
-Dennis Wholey
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-Karen Maezen Miller
"Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life"
In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
-Ramana Maharshi
A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.
-Jodi Picoult
"Nineteen Minutes"
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
