“You can be loving, caring, interested in people, and yet keep a certain measure of detachment. This would protect you from becoming too attached for your own good or emotionally drained by negative people.” – Remez Sasso

“There are many more ordinary hours in life than extraordinary ones. We wait in line at the supermarket. We spend hours commuting to work. We clean our house and cook our food. Happiness means finding a moment of joy in those ordinary hours.” – Haemin Sunim, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down

“It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others. – Daisaku Ikeda

“In Zen we say, ‘Go with the stream,’ but sometimes you have to go against the stream. Then you feel very lonely, but that seems to be part of the package. Loneliness.” – Carol Adrienne, Purpose Of Your Life

“An innate quality among sentient beings, particularly among human beings, is the urge or strong feeling to encounter or experience happiness and discard suffering or pain. Therefore, the whole basis of human life is the experience of different levels of happiness. Achieving or experiencing happiness is the purpose of life.” – His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

“Don’t let past bad luck cloud your vision of a brighter future. Have the courage to believe in a better life.” – Wendy Paris, Happily Ever After

“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.” – Margaret Bonnano

“Our business is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” – Mark Twain

“God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…We need silence to be able to touch souls.” – Mother Teresa