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Happiness Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like…
- All action of Sattva, a modification of Prakriti characterised by light and happiness, is for the soul. When Sattva is free from egoism and illuminated…
- Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.
- Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the…
- To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is…
- There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.
- The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body,…
- In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because…
- May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.
- Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome; if happiness comes,…
- Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.
- In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not…
- Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.
- If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next state. These states…
- After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other.…
- He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only…
- We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We…
- The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is…
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