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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Happiness
Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but
which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel
Hawthorne
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every moment with love, grace,
and gratitude. ~Denis Waitley
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a
playful, joyous energy behind what you do. ~Eckhart Tolle
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily
require happiness. ~William Saroyan
No feeling is final. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking
it outside when it is inside. ~Ramana Maharshi
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated. ~Karen
Maezen Miller
To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy
or content. ~Confucius
Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home.
While you look for trinkets
The treasure house awaits you in your own being.
~Rumi
The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp. ~John Berry
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment. ~Anthony Robbins
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy.
I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right? ~Charles Schulz
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. ~Sir Thomas Browne
I’d rather be happy than right. ~Hugh Prather
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we
have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we
have known sadness. ~David Weatherford
All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.
~Horace Friess
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness. ~Chuang Tse
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires. ~Seneca
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
~John Barrymore
People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They
chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the
emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to
search was within. ~Ramona L. Anderson
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the
comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest
grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it
is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. ~Alexandre Dumas
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal
dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be
approved, and the need to judge. ~Deepak Chopra
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular
mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without
being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to
grow up. ~Charles L. Morgan
If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy
I have no money, no resources, no hope. I am the happiest man alive. ~Henry
Miller
If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there
probably can be no greater happiness than this. ~Kitaro Nishida
Love, joy and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind
dominance. ~Eckhart Tolle
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of being
and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they
have great wealth. ~Eckhart Tolle
Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. They think it
comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some
great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest,
the most unpretentious things in the world. ~ Orison S. Marden
You never find happiness until you stop looking for it. ~Chang Tzu
The sorrows of duty,
Like the heat of the sun,
Have scorched your heart.
But let stillness fall on you
With its sweet and cooling showers,
And you will find happiness.
~Ashtavakra Gita 18:3
Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the
most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in
its eyes. ~Frederich Buechner
Through the orifice of silence,
the whole geyser of Bliss,
perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.
~Paramahansa Yogananda
Just allowing everything to be as it is, needing nothing in particular to happen
is happiness. ~Roberta Weir
True, absolute silence and true, absolute love are not different. Absolute silent
awareness overflows with simple, fulfilled absolute love. Objects–people,
nature, emotions–may or may not appear. Objects are not needed and they are
welcomed. The joy of this full silence is uncaused and unlimited. Always
here, always discovering itself. It is the treasure, and it is hidden only when
we refuse to keep quiet and find out who we are. ~Gangaji
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances. ~unknown
“Why is everyone here so happy except me?”
“Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere,” said the
Master.
“Why don’t I see goodness and beauty everywhere?”
“Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.”
~Anthony de Mello
What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he
leads. ~Albert Camus
One has just to be oneself. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all
burdens, all mountainous burdens simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a
festival of lights. ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Why aren’t you happy? It’s because ninety-nine percent of everything you do,
and think, and say, is for youself–and there isn’t one. ~Wu Wei Wu
To be truly happy, be indifferent to life’s ups and downs. ~Takio Saito
You don’t have to add anything in order to be happy; you’ve got to drop
something. ~Anthony de Mello
As you identify less and less with the “me”, you will be more at ease with
everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no
longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress
anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don’t have to impress anybody
anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last! ~Anthony de Mello
Happiness is not in another place,
but in this place
not in another hour
but in this hour.
~Walt Whitman
Happiness in comfort is not real happiness. When you can be happy in the
midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind. ~Huanchu
Daoren
People who live the most fulfilling lives are the ones who are always rejoicing
at what they have. ~Richard Carlson
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life
he leads? ~Albert Camus
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking
that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the
source is within him.~ Soren Kierkegaard
Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision
you make, the words from your mouth will be empty, and each action will be
meaningless. Truth and confidence are the roots of happiness. ~Kathleen
Pedersen
Love is the master key that opens the gate of happiness. ~Oliver Wendell
Holmes
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is
you. ~David Burns
If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there
probably can be no greater happiness than this. ~Kitarp Nishida
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman
did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.~ Josh Billings
How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut,
a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. All that is required to feel that
here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart. ~Nikos Kazantzakis
Happiness always look small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and
you learn at once how big and precious it is. ~Maxim Gorky