Browsing Topic Best Buddhism Happiness Quotes

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

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

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.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Believe nothing,No matter where you read it,Or who has said it,Not even if I have said it,Unless it agrees with your own reasonAnd your own common sense.

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.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

With our thoughts we make the world.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

The secret of happiness lies in the mind’s release from worldly ties.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings…that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.