Happiness: The Purpose of Life

Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. ~ Aristotle ♥

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Your vision will be clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside dreams; who looks within, awakens.
~ Carl Jung ♥

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At the centre of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~ Lao-Tzu ♥

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Surely joy is the condition of life.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. ~ Henry David Thoreau ♥

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Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...It's about learning how to dance in the rain. ~ Vivian Green ♥

The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh ♥

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~ Mahatma Gandhi ♥


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It’s very simple to be happy, but very difficult to be simple. ~ unknown

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If God invited you to a party and said,
"Everyone in the ballroom tonight will be my special guest, "
how would you then treat them when you arrived?
Indeed, indeed!
And Hafiz knows that there is no one in
this world who is not standing upon
His jeweled dance floor.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. ~ Hafiz ♥

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When you say, “I want to be happy,” what does that mean to you?

What is happiness? When I’m not caught in the hooks of tomorrow, nor being tormented by the past, when I’m lost and found in that one singularity... in the moment called now where I experience passion without having to every define “for what.”

When I am in love and I am filled with love, but I don’t know the lover’s name, when I understand but I don’t know what it is that I have understood, when I have an answer in my lap but I don’t know what question it belongs to, when I am full, when I am full and I don’t know what it is that fills me, and I don’t care because I have no time.

I am enveloped, swallowed whole by that moment called “now”.

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It is no accident that you want to be happy.
Nobody taught you to be happy.
There is a fundamental reason that, again and again,
you choose joy over pain, light over darkness,
happiness over sadness, clarity over doubt.
Nobody goes to a temple to pray,
"God, you have given me too much happiness.
Please take a little bit away."
Never.
There is no limit.

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Happiness isn’t just simply smiling. Happiness isn’t simply laughing. Happiness isn’t simply a time of day when you become happy. Happiness is happiness because you feel good. Not about something. See, this is what we think happiness is. Happiness is feeling happy about something.

Our child passes college, “I am so happy.” We win a lottery ticket, “I am so happy.” We get a promotion – “I am so happy.” Because we think our happiness is associated with all the things in this world. Somehow, this world is going to make us happy.

And I say to you, there is only one person in this world who can make you happy. And you know who that is? Ah. It happens to be this person that you know very little about. Strange. This person that can make you happy – really happy – you don’t really know much about.
You know about your friends. You know a lot about the other people, the other associates, the business colleagues, but very little about yourself. Who are you?

You are that person who can make you very happy.


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Live. Breathe…It is not fear that we need to live by, but joy, hope. Inside you, in your ocean, maybe it seems barren; maybe it feels as if there is no hope, no kindness, no reason for happiness. But deep within you, undeniably, something rumbles, cries out, wants to be born. Allow the joy to come forward. Allow the hope to exist.

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What does it mean to live, to exist?
To feel every day the solidity, the firmness of this breath?
To many people, breath is just air going in and out.
There is more to it.
There is a firmness.
And within its simplicity, tremendous solidness has been placed

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Every moment in our lives is the most precious,
because it is the moment we have.
Wisdom is not realizing the preciousness of something when it is gone.
Wisdom is recognizing the preciousness of what we have.

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The movie of life begins with the first breath.
And we all know how the movie ends.
We are fascinated by the in— between part.
This is what we live for: “Who am I? What am I? What have I accomplished?”

That’s all fine, but never, ever forget the importance of
where it began and where it ends.
~ P Rawat ♥
http://theypi.net/

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