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“Happiness will come through the practice of yoga and Buddhism, that happiness is not something you will lose at the end of this lifetime. It will stay with you.”

Ends Happiness Loses Practice Buddhism Yoga Lifetime

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

“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

“I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.”

I Can Reason Happiness Lying Desire Found Practice Function Virtuous

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.”

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Book:Stumbling on Happiness

Source: Stumbling on Happiness

“No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it is often our pursuit of material possessions that causes our problems. If we want ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering, we must engage in the supreme practices of training the mind. There is no other way.”

“The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.”

Way Self Happiness Joy Hope Speak Practice Trust Confidence Offers Mindfulness Enlightenment Self Confidence Joy Happiness

Book:For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Edition

Source: For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Edition

“Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.”

Happiness Joy Energy Peace Practice Depends Habit Mindfulness Negative Embrace Recognizing Transforming Peace And Happiness

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I think now happiness is a thing you practice like music until you have skill in striking the right notes on time. We have no vocation for it. And I had no practice, not a day when I was free from care and one great anxiety - and one must be free to be happy. I know that much about it by having missed it.”

Thinking Knows Care Happiness Practice Skills Anxiety Notes Vocation

Author:Corra May Harris

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

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Book:The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights

Source: The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights

“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~”

Thinking Mind Heart Happiness Joy Attitude Practice Depends Habit Laughter Positivity Happy Being Happy Merry Power Of Positive Thinking Inner Happiness Habits Of Mind Feasting

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.”

Thinking Way Littles Doe Happiness Waiting Practice Capable Lonely Unhappiness Entitled

Author:Ann Brashares

“My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.”

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Author:Andrew Weil