Buddhism Happiness Quotes

Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.

By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds;

outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Never regret anything that made you smile.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

In the chakras, it's the heart chakra, anahata, the central chakra, three above and three below, which symbolizes happiness and love, psychic oneness, spiritual understanding.

With our thoughts we make the world.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Many people think excitement is happiness.

... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

We are formed and molded by our thoughts.

Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.

Take a couple of days by yourself and rent a nice cabin in some nice, happy place. Stay a day or two and meditate and take walks in areas that feel good to you. Find out who you are again. Remember.

Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

I am against conversion (to Buddhism).

In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion, but not from one organised religion to another, but from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.

Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.

Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up in life that they forget the purpose of life is to be happy.

Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

The abuse of power takes happiness away.

Angry people, unhappy people, people that seek to injure others, these people all have something in common. They waste energy. They don't conserve it and they don't know how to increase it.

Enjoy life now. This is not a rehearsal.

Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. In Buddhism, the impenetrable, separate, and individuated self is more of the problem than the solution.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

The trick in life is to find out where you belong.

Once you find out where you belong, you will be happy there.

Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.

Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.

If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future.

The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.

Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind;

otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy.