The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.
There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
When you produce peace and happiness in yourself, you begin to realize peace for the whole world. With the smile that you produce in yourself, with the conscious breathing you establish within yourself, you begin to work for peace in the world.
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Order is heaven's first law. Order is earth's first law, too.
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