Happiness Quotes

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.

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

It must be something extraordinary to be able to say to yourself that the happiness of every French person is in your hands.

I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.

Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

People often confuse self-respect with arrogance. I believe that there is a very thin line between the two. Balance between the two is often what leads to happiness.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

The will of man is his happiness.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.