Quotations
Happiness
Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
- Scriptures
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction, not from the vital’s or body’s satisfaction.
- Sri Aurobindo
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
- John Lennon
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt and has a clear conscience?
- Adam Smith
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
- Khalil Gibran
Every day you can inspire others through your sincere concern for humanity’s happiness and progress.
- Sri Chinmoy
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
- Leo Tolstoy
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
- Steven Kloves
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
- William Saroyan
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