Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
-Amit Ray
"Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style"
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.
-Aristotle
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-W. P. Kinsella
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
-Bertrand Russell
Happiness is only real when shared.
-Jon Krakauer
"Into the Wild"
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 "Chuang Tzu 21"
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
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 "Maurice Maeterlinck"
