Keys to happiness dalai lama (8)

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao Tzu

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

Samuel Johnson

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Baltasar Gracian

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Euripides

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

James Freeman Clarke

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Plutarch

Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

John Burroughs

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Marguerite Gardiner

Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of travelling.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

John Stuart Mill

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

William Morris

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

Albert Camus

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

Ausonius

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Francis Bacon, Sr.

Happiness means quiet nerves.

W. C. Fields

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Henri Matisse

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object. It is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for a more intense quality of life.

George Bernard Shaw

Keys to happiness dalai lama

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of travelling.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

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

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Happiness means quiet nerves.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object. It is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for a more intense quality of life.