Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
-Ramana Maharshi
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.
-Leslie Vernick
"Lord, I Just Want to Be Happy"
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
-Helen Keller
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
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.”
