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Happiness Quotes by Daisaku Ikeda
- It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.
- Have the depth of faith to regard everything as a source for creating happiness and value.
- All right, let's get to work again!-This is the spirit of people of genuine substance. Those who avoid hard work or neglect the things they…
- No matter how healthy, intelligent or affluent we may be, if our minds are weak, then our happiness will also be frail and brittle. Our…
- To possess both wisdom and compassion is the heart of our human revolution. If you have wisdom alone and lack compassion, it will be a…
- True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.
- To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the…
- Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.
- Knowledge itself is a neutral tool that can be used for good or evil. Wisdom, in contrast, always directs us toward happiness. The task of…
- Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in…
- Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our…
- Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying…
- The gratification of desire is not happiness.
- Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you…
- Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower…
- Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.
- it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.
- Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.
- Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction…
- Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness
More Happiness Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach