Happiness Within Quotes

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day.

I've learned to find happiness within myself.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

"Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us.

Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

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.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

Take whatever cause for outward happiness you might have and take it within yourself, so that, if the sun should go out, you will not be any less happy; if the birds stop singing you will not be any less happy.

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts.

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

All the happiness you ever find lies in you.

Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. You meet a beautiful woman and you are happy, or you meet a beautiful man and you are happy - but the meditator is simply happy. His happiness has no reason from the outside world; his happiness wells up within himself.

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself.

It's very easy to look for happiness outside ourselves; in a relationship, a dream job, or the perfect body weight. When we chase happiness externally, we're simply looking for God in all the wrong places. The outside search is based on false projections we place on the world. These projections build up a wall against true happiness, which lies within us.

Be independent and don't try to think someone is going to save you or look to someone else to make you happy or look to someone else to complete you.