Buddha Quotes

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

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.

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?

I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

I don't ever feel the need to escape.

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

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Some people operate in complete fear that they're gonna lose their stuff and their money. That sounds like hell to me. And then I guess some people operate with hands open, and maybe empty, but at least striving for a deeper understanding of what it means to care.

The noblest mind the best contentment has

Joy is what we are, not what we must get. Joy is the realization that all we want or need in life has been etched into our souls. Joy helps us see not what we are "going through," but what we are "growing to"-a greater sense of understanding, accomplishment, and enlightenment. Joy reveals to us the calm at the end of the storm, the peace that surpasses the momentary happiness of pleasure. If we keep our minds centered on joy, joy becomes a state of mind.

I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.

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

The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?

Only if you are joyful, you can be free from the fruit of action.

A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.

The less I needed, the better I felt.

Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.

Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.