Happiness Quotes

“From contentment comes supreme happiness.”

Patanjali (Yoga Sutras)

“A life without festivity is a long road without an inn.”

Democritus

“They should think their coarse food sweet, their plain clothes beautiful, their poor dwellings places of rest, and their simple ways sources of enjoyment.”

Lao Tzu

“The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.”

Rabindranath Tagore

“Where do you search for me? I am right beside you.”

Kabir

“Sit quietly when times turn against you; when good days return, everything will mend.”

Rahim

“In this world there are all kinds of people; move with everyone in harmony, as a boat moves with the river.”

Tulsidas

“Love yields the gift of sweet benevolence; that again yields friendship's bond of priceless excellence.”

Thiruvalluvar

“The loveless soul the very joys of life may know, when flowers, in barren soil, on sapless trees, shall blow.”

Thiruvalluvar

“Bodies of loveless men are bony framework clad with skin; then is the body seat of life, when love resides within.”

Thiruvalluvar

“Who seeks not pleasure, but delights in toil, a pillar is, to stay his kinsmen's grief and make their sorrows cease.”

Thiruvalluvar

“With smiling face he entertains each virtuous guest; Fortune with gladsome mind shall in his dwelling rest.”

Thiruvalluvar

“As when one shares his household meal with all, such is the joy of embracing the one you love.”

Thiruvalluvar

“To the wise one who sees all beings in the Self, what delusion or what sorrow can there be, when he sees this oneness?”

The Upanishads

“In that peace, all sorrows come to an end, and the intellect of the peaceful soon becomes steady.”

The Bhagavad Gita

“He who, here on earth, before leaving the body, is able to withstand the force of desire and anger, is a yogi and a happy man.”

The Bhagavad Gita

“Forests are delightful; where the world finds no delight, there the passionless will find delight, for they look not for pleasures.”

Buddha

“He who has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquillity is free from fear and free from sin.”

Buddha

“Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, fluttering happily here and there, not knowing I was Zhuang Zhou.”

Zhuangzi

“If a ruler rejoices in the joy of his people, they also rejoice in his joy.”

Mencius

“There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.”

Mencius

“The end of labour is to gain leisure.”

Aristotle

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”

Socrates

“Life must be lived as play.”

Plato

“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”

Seneca