When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice
Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation. . . Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.
Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.
If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine-a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come. . . believe in them. They reflect your true nature.
Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?
How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?
Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.
Happiness is loving your enemies.
One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.