“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
More from Dalai Lama on Happiness
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
“Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.”
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy-Dalai Lama”
“The secret to my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands. I must not miss that opportunity!”
“Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.”
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
“Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.”
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy-Dalai Lama”
“The secret to my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands. I must not miss that opportunity!”
“Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.”
Others on Happiness
Jane Austen
10 quotes“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
Anne Frank
8 quotes“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
Leo Tolstoy
6 quotes“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”
Alexandre Dumas
6 quotes“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
Aristotle
6 quotes“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Dale Carnegie
5 quotes“Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.”
Albert Schweitzer
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Anton Chekhov
5 quotes“Even in Siberia there is happiness.”
Charles Schulz
5 quotes“Happiness is loving your enemies.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
5 quotes“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
George Santayana
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Bertrand Russell
5 quotes“Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.”