Happiness Quotes

Don't be afraid to be who you are, we were created to perfect in our own imperfect way.

~ Kendal Rob

One candle is like a smile. One little light can start a whole fire. Smile at someone today.

~ Gail Thackray

Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning.

~ Coco J. Ginger

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

~ Gary D. Schmidt

Try smiling at people, you never know how one smile can affect their day.

~ Benjamin Bayani

A smile is the only infectious affliction everyone is encouraged to spread.

~ Omar Kiam

It is such a mistake to assume that practicing dharma will help us calm down and lead an untroubled life; nothing could be further from the truth. Dharma is not a therapy. Quite the opposite, in fact; dharma is tailored specifically to turn your life upside down—it’s what you sign up for. So when your life goes pear-shaped, why do you complain? If you practice and your life fails to capsize, it is a sign that what you are doing is not working. This is what distinguishes the dharma from New Age methods involving auras, relationships, communication, well-being, the Inner Child, being one with the universe, and tree hugging. From the point of view of dharma, such interests are the toys of samsaric beings—toys that quickly bore us senseless.

~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rockIf you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy,maybe you can grasp it.

~ Dick Allen

We just have to remind ourselves that the source of any happiness is mind itself.

~ Ole Nydahl

What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and nothing can ever belong to itself

~ Gautama Buddha

A bowl of diligence and perseverance, a cup of faith and a pinch of inspiration mixed with a spoon of contentment are the ingredients of a delicious success. Cook yours well.

~ Joe Mari Fadrigalan

Before reacting to any conflicting situation in life. Ask yourself a simple question: You want to be happy or you want to be right?

~ Aditya Ajmera

When relying solely on ego, we are given many messages that are contrary to the achievement of that happy and fulfilling life that most of us actually desire.

~ Taite Adams

Joy is a choice, not an outcome.

~ Beth Johnson

Happy to be here, proud to serve.

~ Keith Allan Moore

The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is the ultimate purpose of our life and you find it in service.

~ Debasish Mridha

There is only one way to happiness and that is through service.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life becomes invaluable when we spend it in the service of others.

~ Debasish Mridha

I am a great success, not because of what I have, but because, through service, I found enduring happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

12% of dreams create jobs. 88% of jobs destroy dreams.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in, in the hope that you might be lucky, and the knife has actually been staunching the blood. You want to know the conventional medical wisdom? The conventional medical wisdom is that you keep the knife in. Really.

~ Nick Hornby

Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy.

~ Angelica Hopes

This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.

~ Gretchen Rubin

For there is no joy in continuity, in the perpetual. We desire it only because the present is empty. A person who is trying to eat money is always hungry. When someone says, Time to stop now! he is in a panic because he has had nothing to eat yet, and wants more and more time to go on eating money, ever hopeful of satisfaction around the corner. We do not really want continuity, but rather a present experience of total happiness. The thought of wanting such an experience to go on and on is a result of being self-conscious in the experience, and thus incompletely aware of it. So long as there is the feeling of an I having this experience, the moment is not all. Eternal life is realized when the last trace of difference between I and now has vanished - when there is just this now and nothing else.By contrast, hell or everlasting damnation is not the everlastingness of time going on forever, but of the unbroken circle, the continuity and frustration of going round and round in pursuit of something which can never be attained. Hell is the fatuity, the everlasting impossibility, of self-love, self-consciousness, and seld-possession. It is trying to see one´s own eyes, hear one´s own ears, and kiss one´s own lips.

~ Alan W. Watts

For there is no joy in continuity, in the perpetual. We desire it only because the present is empty. A person who is trying to eat money is always hungry. When someone says, Time to stop now! he is in a panic because he has had nothing to eat yet, and wants more and more time to go on eating money, ever hopeful of satisfaction around the corner. We do not really want continuity, but rather a present experience of total happiness. The though of wanting such an experience to go on and on is a result of being self-conscious in the experience, and thsu incompletely aware of it. So long as there is the feeling of an I having this experience, the moment is not all. Eternal life is realized when the last trace of difference between I and now has vanished - when there is just this now and nothing else.By contrast, hell or everlasting damnation is not the everlastingness of time going on forever, but of the unbroken circle, the continuity and frustration of going round and round in pursuit of something which can never be attained. Hell is the fatuity, the everlasting impossibility, of self-love, self-consciousness, and seld-possession. It is trying to see one´s own eyes, hear one´s own ears, and kiss one´s own lips.

~ Alan W. Watts

For there is no joy in continuity, in the perpetual. We desire it only because the present is empty. A person who is trying to eat money is always hungry. When someone says, Time to stop now! he is in a panic because he has had nothing to eat yet, and wants more and more time to go on eating money, ever hopeful of satisfaction around the corner. We do not really want continuity, but rather a present experience of total happiness. The thought of wanting such an experience to go on and on is a result of being self-conscious in the experience, and thus incompletely aware of it. So long as there is the feeling of an I having this experience, the moment is not all. Eternal life is realized when the last trace of difference between I and now has vanished - when there is just this now and nothing else.By contrast, hell or everlasting damnation is not the everlastingness of time going on forever, but of the unbroken circle, the continuity and frustration of going round and round in pursuit of something which can never be attained. Hell is the fatuity, the everlasting impossibility, of self-love, self-consciousness, and self-possession. It is trying to see one´s own eyes, hear one´s own ears, and kiss one´s own lips.

~ Alan W. Watts

Happiness lies in simplicityComplexity brings anxiety.

~ Debasish Mridha

I remember that I did feel, starting my mini-tour, the resident anxiety you develop when you know you've been too lucky; at any moment, maybe next Tuesday afternoon, I would be stricken with something unbearable.

~ Carol Shields

Almost everything that I've ever worried about has never happened ..

~ Ian Tucker

I consider it extremely doubtful whether the happiness of the human race has been enhanced by the technical and industrial developments that followed in the wake of rapidly progressing natural science.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

The extraordinary triumph of the cellphone among India’s poor stemmed from its ability to enable a most mundane human need, which is to chat with other people. And when the poor chat, it is not always about curing a child of diarrhea.

~ Manu Joseph

Nobody would have been able to understand the depth of my joy and the extent of my happiness unless they had themselves gone through what I just had.

~ Preeti Shenoy

We are all so happy. If we only could realize it.

~ Pat R

A day is a day. It’s just a measurement of time. Whether it’s a good day or a bad day is up to you. It’s all a matter of perception.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Happiness is an inner perception, not an outer realistic conception.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is not in perfection but it is a perception in the midst of imperfection.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony.

~ Debasish Mridha

Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is a perception of what you have, not what you should have.

~ Debasish Mridha