Isak Dinesen Quotes

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

You are without needs. There is nothing that you need in order to be perfectly happy. You only think that there is. Your deepest, most perfect happiness will be found within, and once you find it, nothing exterior to your Self can match it, nor can anything destroy it.

His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul.

We have been accustomed to thinking that we have to get something from outside us in order to be happy, but in truth it works the other way: we must learn to contact our inner source of happiness and satisfaction and flow it outward to share with others-not because it is virtuous to do so, but because it really feels good.

Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within.

Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

Understand that there is no relationship between your inner happiness and your inner joy and the outer things that you experience and behold in the world, that it all begins with you, the world is a mirror to your own Self, when you can look at things and feel joy not in the things but in yourself.

Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.

I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.

But does not happiness come from the soul within?

Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.

Joy has come to live with me. How can I be sad? I do so love Thy presence, which is joy within me.

Nothing outside of ourselves will ever make us happy, because happiness is an inside-out experience.

The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call "following your bliss."

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.