Famous Quotes

"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 on Happiness

More quotes about Happiness

• "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

  John Barrymore on Happiness

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

  Dalai Lama on Happiness

• "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

  Abraham Lincoln on Happiness

• "I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

  Martha Washington on Happiness

• "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Happiness

More quotes by Buddha

• "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned."

• "In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."

• "You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."

• "The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."

• "Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."