happiness

"Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life."

"Happiness must be grown in one's own garden."

"Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness… the door is open and unlocked… just walk through it."

"Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness."

"I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room"

"They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning."

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."

"I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness."

"To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world."

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."

"The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions."

"Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves."

"Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection."

"Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success."

"so I wait for you like a lonely housetill you will see me again and live in me.Till then my windows ache."

"Joy came always after pain."

"Live in this moment ... for it is the only moment we have!"

"I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit."

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

"We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves."