Chanakya Quotes

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

If such a thing called happiness exists in this world, it should be something which resembles the limitless nothingness. Nihility is having nothing and having nothing to lose. If that isn't "happiness", then what is?

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy.

The first rule of negotiation is to always be willing to walk away from the deal. The first rule of happiness is to not be attached to pleasing moments.

I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.

If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.

There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no joy like the joy of freedom. Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.

I finally found me a cloud to float on.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away from the Divine, from prayer, from gratitude you will be. Be austere. Live with the necessary and forget about desires; they are fantasies in the mind, ripples in the lake. They only disturb you, they can never lead you to any contentment.

I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

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

You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.

I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.

True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned.

In ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.