Arise Quote by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

— Ethel Percy Andrus

Sometimes our thoughts turn back toward a corner in a forest, or the end of a bank, or an orchard powdered with flowers, seen…

— Guy de Maupassant

During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give…

— Fritjof Capra

Happiness comes from within

— Anonymous

Happiness is only gained when your mind is in extended states of attention, when your mind is merging with the infinite.

— Frederick Lenz

Dynamic activity and deep rest of the mind are complementary to each other.

— Deepak Chopra

Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.

— Frederick Lenz

You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

— Horace

When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will…

— Lionel Shriver

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

— Walker Evans

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

— Gautama Buddha

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing…

— Alexandre Dumas