#happin

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#happiness #tranquility #understanding #development

The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power. ↗

— Joseph Smith Jr.

#inspiriational #knowledge #lds #mormon #religion

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#gifts

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#pretending #fiction

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#pride #pride

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside. ↗

— Peter Deunov

#enlightenment #happiness #inner-peace #self-fulfillment #wisdom

I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. ↗

— Joanne Harris

#happiness #joanne-harris #torture

Meeting you was not the first day of the rest of my life; it was the first day of the BEST of my life. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#in-love #life #love #relationship #experience

I knew you were the one when I realized your smile was my heaven, your laugh my favorite song, and your arms my home. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #heaven #home #love #smile

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#kindness