Inner Happiness Quotes

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.

Your life is supposed to feel good to you.

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.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.

Methought I heard him say, "Ay! I am fairly out, and you fairly in. See which of us will be the happiest.

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

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.

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.

Contentment is better than divinations or visions.

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.

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

I knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long as no one wanted to be let in, I didn't have to shut anyone out.

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

find light in the beautiful sea. I choose to be happy.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

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

The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

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

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