HAPPINESS
The devotee whose happiness is within himself, and whose light is also within himself, becoming one with the Supreme, obtains the highest bliss.
- Mahabharata, from Mahabharata
As long as we are caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we’re always running away from discomfort, we’re going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and disappointment, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us to develop inner strength.
- Pema Chodron
Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. . . . Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
- Philo
So many people work so hard, to achieve, attain, accumulate and cherish their fortunes. How many of us blissfully fill our days and nights being the Divine expression we are? This is the meaning of life. It is to be. As a result, all of your creations are a natural outflow from the Divine within your being. This is the joy of life.
- Barbara Rose
...earthly language is entirely insufficient to describe what there is of joy, happiness and liveliness contained in the inner wonders of God.
- Jacob Behmen
Happiness is the unexpected surprise of living a life in service to others.
- author unknown
Make the present moment into the most wonderful moment of your life.
- Thich Nhat Hanh, from True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.
- Blessed Margaret d'Youville
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