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If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
Sep 10, 2025
All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal.
Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an illusion.
If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.
May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.
You will find peace and happiness if you will live the gospel.
Retirement is the last opportunity for individuals to reinvent themselves, let go of the past, and find peace and happiness within.
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.
No joy can equal the joy of serving others.
Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
I believe in the 12 Jewels and try to provide my childrem with them. That is Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Love, Peace and Happiness.
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is not wrong—inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes, our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are already present.
When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!
Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think either that the other's pain may somehow be a cause of happiness for themselves or that their own happiness is more important, regardless of what pain it may cause. But this is shortsighted. No one truly benefits from causing harm to another sentient being. . . . . In the long run causing others misery and infringing their rights to peace and happiness result in anxiety, fear, and suspicion within oneself.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
I think happiness is what makes you pretty.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
Conscience is the still small voice that has been trying since the infancy of our species to tell us that we are evolutionarily, emotionally, and spiritually One, and that if we seek peace and happiness, we must behave that way.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
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.
The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind. It makes right reason a law in every possible definition of the word. And therefore, even supposing it to have been purely a human invention, it had been the most amiable and the most useful invention that was ever imposed on mankind for their good.
If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
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.
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
We often see people every day searching in the wrong places for the things they desire. Too many of our fellow humans try to find peace and happiness in drugs, alcohol, and sensual excitement. And it doesn't work. If we desire peace, the first place to look is within ourselves. Peace isn't an external condition as much as an internal context.
One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won't solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.
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.
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
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?
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.