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“Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.”

Ifs Happiness Pleasure Deals Buddhism Enjoyable Transient Satiation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up in life that they forget the purpose of life is to be happy.”

People Ifs Sometimes Hard Happiness Life Is Purpose Forget Buddhism Caught Purpose Of Life Caught Up Fog

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.”

Way Light Happiness Seeing Conditions Buddhism Shadow Unhappy Unhappiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Consistency is nice, I think, personally. I like to be consistently happy. I like to be consistently more aware and more conscious of the truth.”

Thinking Happiness Nice Buddhism Conscious Consistently Consistency

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.”

Mean Happiness Buddhism Negative Unhappy Discrimination Allowing Happy Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."”

Mind Happiness Buddhism Checks Legends Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't just sit there. Go do something and don't expect that it's going to be fun unless you make it fun. You have got to work on things. That is when you are happy.”

Happiness Fun Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is something that you don't postpone. If you are postponing happiness - it is something you will probably never experience much of.”

Ifs Happiness Buddhism Postponing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The worst thing you can do is to sit and brood and feel sorry for yourself. Nor should you feel wrong about doing this, since all of us do from time to time.”

Feels Should Happiness Can Do Worst Buddhism Sorry Worst Things Feel Sorry For You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.”

Happiness Difficult Can Do Taught Buddhism Best Things Nun

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.”

Mind Problem Happiness Buddhism Tasks Occupy Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective, associating with them will raise your energy level.”

People Different Self Happiness Form Energy Levels Class Study Crazy Buddhism Yoga Discovery Raises Calm Self Discovery Balanced Introspective Energy Levels

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.”

Art Stills Happiness Walks Flower Buddhism Computer Drawing Stillness Life Happiness Arranging Walks In Nature

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Find things that make you feel still, that make you feel good.”

Feels Stills Happiness Buddhism Feel Good Make You Feel Good

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is everything in the whole universe. It's a state of mind. Your whole life is a state of mind. So be happy, why not?”

Mind States Whole Happiness Life Is Universe Buddhism Whole Life Why Not State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.”

Self Moments Happiness Joy Enjoy Accepting Taken Buddhism Completion Accepting Yourself Enjoy Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God! Life is right in front of you, and it's great.”

Looks Happiness Life Is Forget Watches Fronts Buddhism Activity Mindfulness God Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Focus on beauty all day long. Realize how incredibly beautiful your life is. How incredibly beautiful it is to feel, to look around, to be, to experience all this wonder.”

Feels Looks Long Beautiful Happiness Life Is Realizing Wonder Focus Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That's a jerk.”

Seems Happiness Easy Stuff Buddhism Waste Unhappy Courageous Jerk Be Courageous Lightness Weird Stuff

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're miserable, nothing is working in life, it doesn't matter. Smile anyway.”

Trying Matter Happiness Practice Five Minutes Buddhism Bigger Unhappy Miserable Five Minutes Stop Trying Your Smile Just Smile

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.”

World Happiness Laughing Buddhism Nothingness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are.”

Wells Sometimes Happiness Realizing Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Pain and frustration vanish in the sunlight of your smile.”

Pain Happiness Buddhism Frustration Sunlight Your Smile

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others.”

Giving Self Happiness Easy Buddhism Self Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally.”

Happiness Path Buddhism Truth Is Succeed Discouraged

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.”

Happiness Faces Waiting Rooms Buddhism Your Face Smile On Your Face Waiting Rooms

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up very soon. So get on top of it. I'm sure you will get the part.”

Happiness Realizing Roles Practice Buddhism Auditions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.”

World Mind Stills Self Happiness Desire Loses Buddhism Involved Stillness Centering

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are ten thousand states of mind.”

Mind Mean States Beautiful Happiness Simple Meditation Buddhism Thousand Ten Profound Complicated State Of Mind Entering Uncomplicated Simple Happiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything you do in meditation is amplified. If you meditate for five minutes with your complete mind focused on happiness, that is like focusing on happiness for several hours as you are walking around.”

Ifs Mind Happiness Hours Five Meditation Minutes Buddhism Walking Focused Five Minutes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.”

Ifs Mind States Happiness Grows Focus Buddhism Unhappy State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon as they experience passes, the happiness passes.”

People Thinking World Happiness Desire Causes Buddhism Type Fulfillment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?”

Ifs Doe Happiness Desire Buddhism Ten Factors Fulfillment Apples Why Not Pie Make You Happy Apple Pie Satiation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The rich aren't happy so they try and get richer thinking it will make a difference. The poor aren't happy. They try and get rich thinking that will make a difference.”

Thinking Trying Happiness Differences Poor Rich Buddhism Making A Difference Get Rich

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Happiness Buddhism Definitions Not Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or horrible and demonic, whatever it may be, it's all a waste of time. Take it from the Zen Master. He knows.”

Ifs Thinking Knows May Happiness Powerful Masters Buddhism Letting Go Waste Noble Horrible Wealthy Wasting Time Truthful Demonic Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Power doesn't make you happy. Actually, power without knowledge and balance is problematic. Power is something that will automatically follow when you have knowledge. The two are really the same, in a certain sense.”

Two Happiness Certain Buddhism Balance Make You Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't have to take drugs to be happy. You don't have to drink to be happy. You don't have to have people around you who love you to be happy. You don't need anything except the clarity of your own mind.”

People Needs Mind Happiness Love You Buddhism Drink Drug Clarity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.”

Ifs Trying May Happiness Used Chance Steps Buddhism Pure Used To Be Motive Chances Are Meditating Skip Vibrate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.”

Ifs Littles Pain Happiness Sides Buddhism Complainers Whiners

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.”

World Pain Happiness Hate Loss Pleasure Love You Buddhism Circumstances Gains Happy Being Happy Hate You Love Hate World Love Happiness Is A Choice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.”

Feels Body Happiness Spirit Buddhism Sickness Dependent

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.”

Want Should Happiness Loses Buddhism Eternity Seeking Innocence Brighter

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we immerse ourselves in the ultimate good, we will have this silly smile on our face or perhaps just inside our hearts. That is what illumination is.”

Ifs Heart Happiness Faces Buddhism Ultimate Silly Illumination

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.”

Wells Action Happiness Suffering Evil Buddhism Oneself Harm Well Being Zen Buddhism

Author:Thich Thien-An

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”

“Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.”

People Thinking Happiness Peace Buddhism Excited Peaceful Excitement True Happiness Peace Is Every Step

Author:Nhat Hanh

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