True Happiness

The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.
-Dalai Lama

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
-Maxim Gorky

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-Robert Heinlein

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
-Ken Keys, Jr.

The air is like a butterfly with frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky and sings…
-J. Kilmer

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.
-William Louden

We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
-Maxwell Maltz

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
-Buddha

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism…confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
-David M. Burns