Quotes on “happiness”

You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.

My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy.

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

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

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

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

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.

Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.