Top 1200 Peace And Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

True giving is a thoroughly joyous thing to do. We experience happiness when we form the intention to give, in the actual act of giving, and in the recollection of the fact that we have given. Generosity is a celebration. When we give something to someone we feel connected to them, and our commitment to the path of peace and awareness deepens.

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

Happiness will come to you when it comes from you. Others can only bring temporary happiness and not everyone understands you.

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.

In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness?

External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

To me, 'success' is happiness and my top tip for happiness would be to understand and learn to use perspective.

If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.

One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones

I am for peace. And I am for a negotiated peace. But this accord is not a just peace.

Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind.

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else--that is, that it is not with you.

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn’t have to be validated.

What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work? Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless.

Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.

There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is itself the great venture and can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving oneself completely to God's commandment. Wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of almighty God. Not trying to direct it for selfish purposes. Battles are won not with weapons, but with God. They are won when the way leads to the cross.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness.

You get World Peace through Inner Peace. If you've got a world full of people who have Inner Peace, then you have a Peaceful World.

If we can live a day in peace, then why couldn't we live a week in peace? If we can master a week, why not a month? If we can master a month in peace, why not a year in peace? And if we can master a year, then certainly we can master a lifetime of peace as God's highest creation.

Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness... happiness is when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.

The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.

Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious harmony as the white and colored people in America, to develop side by side in peace and mutual happiness, the peculiar contribution which each has to make to the culture of their common country.

Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

Happiness is not found, it is created. Happiness does not depend on all that we lack, but on the way in which we use all that we have

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.

The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of the heart's existence is in this calm equable light, even although it be only moonshine or twilight. Now the mind alone can obtain for us this heavenly cheerfulness and peace.

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

Now I find my happiness in my music, what I'm doing in the ring, and being a mom. No one thing controls my happiness.