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Happiness Quotes by Gautama Buddha
- 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.…
- Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
- Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people…
- All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.
- Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards…
- If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
- The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
- He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.
- When we feel happy and peaceful, our happiness and peace radiates around us, and others can enjoy it as well. This is called 'the enjoyment…
- It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.
- No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.
- A man asked Lord Buddha "I want happiness." Lord Buddha said - first remove "I" that's ego. Then remove "Want" that's desire. See now you…
- If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow…
- Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the…
- Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- Your suffering is my suffering and your happiness is my happiness.
- There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness,…
- Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.
- In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.
- Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
- The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.
- For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.
- We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with…
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- 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