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Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
By pursuing only success that will be all we find, but pursue happiness and we also find success.
In my opinion, the most irrational thing you can do is ignore the intuition
Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.
no evil to be fightin', only ignorance to enlighten
First, knowing the people and values we hold dear are just as eternal as we are, we have every reason to work happily and hopefully and take opportunities as they come -- also, knowing what could be discouraging in time is not discouraging at all in eternity.
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.
Then why don't I experience this happiness? Why am I miserable or dissatisfied much of the time? The desires in my mind for objects veil this happiness. In moments when I am peaceful, I experience joy within myself.
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
Happiness: fraction of a second lasting orgasm
Happiness is not in what you can acquire, but in what you already possess.
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
When you understand the world, there is no hope. For, there is only understanding. Hope is an answer to miscomprehension. And so, hopeing is belief in the positive outcome. And lack of hope is believing in the positive outcome. In essence, they are exactly the same. And so one can attain perfect happiness with both views.
Many people will come in and out of your life that will cause you pain, it is your choice to let them continue
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true
Once you find what motivates you, you will be able to achieve your highest goals.
Without love there is no life, without God there is no love.
They say you can't have your cake and eat it too, but then what's the point of having cake if you're not going to eat it?
There is great happiness in not wanting, in not being something,in not going somewhere
“ i envision a day when people see beyond differences - to the core of what we all have in common, where what we value most allows all humankind to live peacefully, respecting one another.”
-marlise karlin
The happiness that moves you to follow your dream is pale in comparison to your happiness when your dream comes true.
Small, consistent changes you can continue are vital for your happiness.
Children aren`t happy without something to ignore, and that`s what parents were created for.
The secret of happiness is something to do.
Do not undervalue the place of discomfort in your life.
Winners in life enjoy and treasure, equally, the comfort of renewing and the discomfort of doing -- knowing a mixture of both is required for lasting happiness.
