Browsing Topic Best Art Of Happiness Quotes

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

Don’t mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

The type of Buddhist practices that I talk about in ‘The Art of Happiness’ have to do with reconditioning one’s way of thinking and one’s outlook, and one’s perception and how one relates to people. That type of thing, any Westerner can practice at any time.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

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.

People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

The art of happiness is to serve all, and all shall serve you.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.