Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
You always hear the phrase, money doesn’t buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it’s not really true. I got a new car because the old one’s lease expired.
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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.
When I was in my 20s, I don’t think I knew what happiness was. Now, it’s about getting to a place in your life when you’re confident in the person you are. It took me a long time to get there.
Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn’t think he could do.
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
Happiness isn’t happiness unless there’s a violin-playing goat.
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.
Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.
There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.
While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise – sometimes with astonishment – how happy we had been.
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
My mantra is: Let there be happiness in my soul, and let me share it with the world.
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another’s happiness.
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Completeness? Happiness? These words don’t come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
For me, love is happiness and inspiration.
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
