Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donny Osmond

I never smile unless I mean it.

Don Marquis

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Colley Cibber

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

Dalai Lama

Our business is to be happy.

Dalai Lama

Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.

Dalai Lama

In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness.

Dalai Lama

The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.

Dalai Lama

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

Dalai Lama

The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

Dalai Lama

Happiness can be achieved through training the mind.

Dalai Lama

You're happy when you help others become happy.

Dalai Lama

Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.

Dalai Lama

Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.

Dalai Lama

Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.

Dalai Lama

Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.

Dalai Lama

Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious, will go beyond the bounds of what is truly human.

Dalai Lama

Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of no use.

Dalai Lama

A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility

Dalai Lama

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

Dalai Lama

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

Dalai Lama

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.

Dalai Lama

The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.

Dalai Lama

As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger and attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.

Dalai Lama

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

Dalai Lama

It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.

Dalai Lama

There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort

Dalai Lama

Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Dalai Lama

If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

Dalai Lama

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

Dalai Lama

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

Dalai Lama

Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.

Dalai Lama

We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.

Dick Gregory

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.