“Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.”
Quotes about happiness
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“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”
“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.”
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.”
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”
“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
“The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
“What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.”
“Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.”
“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.”
“Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.”
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
“Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.”
“If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.”
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.”
“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.”
“What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.”
“I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.”
“Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.”