Best Quotes on Connection, Community and Happiness to Inspire and Ignite

If you want to be happy, practice compassion. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ~David Viscott

Society is a contract…for all generations. ~Edward Burke

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness. ~Seneca the Younger

We > Me

Friendship is the bond that holds communities together. ~Aristotle

Only connect. ~E.M. Forster

Success corresponds to the human ability not just to act, but to act in concert. ~Hannah Arendt

We are separate, but inseparable. ~Matthew Arnold

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our pain. ~Cicero

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. ~Desmond Tutu

We’re all connected. We’re all part of one another. ~Fred Rogers

~~~MISC

The art of being wise is in knowing what to overlook. ~William James

I am holding you in the light. ~Shaker blessing

The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. ~Unknown

if people are convinced things are getting worse, they behave badly. If they believe things are improving, they invest. ~Unknown

The secret of having it all, is loving it all. ~Dr. Joyce Brothers

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. ~Alan Watts

Those who are awake live in a constant state of amazement. ~Jack Kornfield

No snowflake falls in an inappropriate place. ~Zen saying

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they are great and noble.

We have to learn happily in the present moment, to touch the peace and joy that are available now. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Wealth is the number of things we can do without. ~Feodor Dosteyevsky

All wisdom ends in paradox.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliance, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?” And who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that others won’t feel insecure around you. We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us. It is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates the other. ~Nelson Mandela

To be nobody bur yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest human battle ever and to never stop fighting. ~EE Cummings

Only our own searching for happiness prevents us from seeing it. It is like a vivid rainbow which you pursue without ever catching it, or a dog chasing its own tail. Although peace and happiness do not exist as an actual thing or place, they are always available, and accompany you every instant. ~Gendun Rinpoche

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. ~Jack Kornfield

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. ~Chinese Proverb

You can’t make a date with enlightenment. ~Shunryu Suzuki

There is a moral obligation to be as creative as possible.

~~~HAPPINESS

The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go. ~Dodinsky

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment. ~Carlos Santana

Happiness is living life to the fullest with no regrets and squeezing something out of every minute of our existence. ~Craig Smith

We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. ~Joseph Campbell

Happiness consists more of small everyday pleasures than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.” ~Benjamin Franklin

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the choice.

Optimism is essential to achievement and the foundation of progress. ~Nicholas M. Butler

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. ~Bernard Beckett

True hopefulness and optimism are what lead one to dare. They are also what lift one back up to dare again after a failed attempt. ~Bibi Bourelly

Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~Nicholas M. Butler

If you’re going to fail, then fail gloriously. ~Cate Blanchett

There is no ‘right time’. There is only time and what you choose to do with it.

Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn’t know you’d left open. ~John Barrymore

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. ~Katharine Hepburn

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. ~George Sand

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~Freya Stark

I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. ~Groucho Marx

Happiness is not (necessarily) doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things. ~Maxime Lagace

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. ~James M. Barrie

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. ~Richard Bach

Happiness significantly depends on courage and work. ~Honore de Balzac

With more joy comes unlimited possibilities. ~Heather Leachman-Beck

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness. ~Charles Spurgeon

You find joy in a task by taking pride in your work. ~Ryan Mayton

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. ~Baruch Spinoza

Be happy in this moment. This moment is your life. ~Omar Khayyam

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. ~George Sand

Happiness cannot be traveled to, learned or consumed. It is the experiences of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. ~Denis Waitley

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. ~Lucille Ball

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

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. ~Marcus Aurelius

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ~Benjamin Disraeli

True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happiness is a cup of tea, a comfy chair and a great book. ~Tracy Brower

The secret to happiness is a bad memory. ~Rita Mae Brown

Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. ~Thomas Merton

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. ~Frank McCourt

The person with the talent they were meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. ~Johann Wolfgan von Goeth

The most worthwhile thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. ~Robert Baden-Powell

There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path.

The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grow it underfoot. ~James Oppenheim

There are millions reasons to be happy and millions of reasons to be unhappy. The choice is yours. ~Ajay Kaurav

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you’re doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. ~Dale Carnegie

Enjoy the little things in life, for someday you’ll realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. ~Frank Tyger

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~Guillaume Apollinaire

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