Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones.
-Dhammapada " Dhammapada 194"
Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones.
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The Social Contract and Discourses"
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
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
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
-Madonna
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol