happiness

HH the Dalai Lama Quotes on Happiness

“Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.” H.H. the Dalai Lama, Kindness, Clarity and Insight “Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to [...]

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Lama Yeshe Quotes on Happiness – When the chocolate runs out

We love chocolate. Perhaps so much so that on some level we may believe, “As long as I have chocolate, I’ll be happy.” This is the power of attachment at work. And based on this attachment, we create a chocolate-based philosophy and order our life prioritizing chocolate. But sometimes, we can’t get our hands on [...]

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Theravada Buddhist quotes about happiness

There are a lot of sites online that share Buddha quotes. Unfortunately, many of those quotes cannot be found in the Buddhist scriptures, let alone in the oldest Buddhist scriptures which are most likely to contain the Buddha’s word. In trying to find quotes about happiness in Buddhism, I naturally started with the oldest Buddhism. [...]

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Inspiring science quotes about Happiness

These quotes are all based on psychological research into what makes people happy. People who go to work in their overalls and on the bus are just as happy, on the average, as those in suits who drive to work in their own Mercedes. David Lykken Economic growth in affluent countries has provided no apparent [...]

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