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Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.
Sep 10, 2025
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.
Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.
What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanor; so that good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in societ.
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.