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"
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
-Ray Bradbury
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
