Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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| — | Omar Khayyam |
“For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.”
~ Gautama Buddha
All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful intelligence and a much greater ability to achieve happiness and avoid suffering. Real happiness and friendship come not from money or even knowledge, but from warm-heartedness. Once we recognise this we will be more inclined to cultivate it.
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| — | Dalai Lama |
“The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves, where we can look at all that is happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.” - Ram Dass (Richard Alpert)
Socrates on self-confidence, part of Alain de Botton’s documentary A Guide to Happiness, based on his book The Consolations of Philosophy. His latest thought piece, Religion for Atheists, explores what secular movements like education and the arts can learn from religious concepts and delivery formats.
(via Open Culture)
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
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| — | Helen Keller |
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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| — | Ramana Maharshi |
By bringing about a change in our outlook toward things and events, all phenomena can become sources of happiness.
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| — | Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama |
We are human beings, and we have this marvelous brain and marvelous heart, so there is potential to develop a proper mental attitude, through which we can have a happy, more peaceful life.
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| — | Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama |
More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of whether we have a religious framework or not. When we nurture this most basic human resource – when we set about cultivating those basic inner values which we all appreciate in others, then we start to live spiritually.
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| — | Dalai Lama |
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
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| — | Pearl S. Buck |
![‘In Bhutan, national policy emphasises increasing people’s happiness, rather than income.
[…]
The mad pursuit of corporate profits is threatening us all. To be sure, we should support economic growth and development, but only in a broader context: one that promotes environmental sustainability and the values of compassion and honesty that are required for social trust. The search for happiness should not be confined to the beautiful mountain kingdom of Bhutan.’
(via The economics of happiness - Opinion - Al Jazeera English)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrba9neSA01qbge4co1_500.jpg)
‘In Bhutan, national policy emphasises increasing people’s happiness, rather than income.
[…]
The mad pursuit of corporate profits is threatening us all. To be sure, we should support economic growth and development, but only in a broader context: one that promotes environmental sustainability and the values of compassion and honesty that are required for social trust. The search for happiness should not be confined to the beautiful mountain kingdom of Bhutan.’
(via The economics of happiness - Opinion - Al Jazeera English)
