Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Whoever is happy will make others happy.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside
Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.
When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?
I would suggest that the next generation stop looking for happiness outside of themselves but instead turn inward.
Looking for happiness in the body, mind or world is like looking for the screen in a movie. The screen doesn't appear in the movie, and yet, at the same time, all that is seen in the movie is the screen. In the same way that the screen 'hides' in plain view, so happiness 'hides' in all experience.
If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.
Lots of people look for happiness through sensations, whether it's through sex, the taste of food, the sound of music, the sensations of movies and plays, creating a certain environment in their home, and so on. Looking for happiness through sensations keeps you constantly searching for the next "fix" and for more varied sensations. Sensations become addictions, and nothing is ever enough.
We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.
One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute *whazaam*, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as a rabbit, let me tell you. You want grass and sex, not thoughts like 'What's it all about, when you get right down to it?'
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