Freedom And Happiness Quotes:

Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Change, Moving, Freedom And Happiness

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

- Epictetus

topic: Life, Lying, Freedom And Happiness

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Interesting Life, Make Up Your Mind

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Freedom, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Joy Of Living, Joy To The World

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Happiness, Letting Go, Giving, Happier Life, Letting Go Of Anger

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Social Innovation, Souls In Love

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

- Dada Vaswani

topic: Lying, True Happiness, Fulfillment, Freedom And Happiness, Fulfillment And Happiness

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

- Epictetus

source: Epictetus (2016). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.87, Courier Dover Publications

topic: Happiness, Success, Being Happy, You Make Me Happy, Spiritual Beings

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

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Always Happy, Inner Peace And Happiness

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

- Nhat Hanh

source: Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.78, Harmony

topic: Happiness, Inspiring, Letting Go, Letting Go Of Anger, Anger Inside

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Happier Life, Just Want To Be Happy

Freedom and happiness come from understanding - and working with - our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with your purpose. Do not seek external approval. Do not worry about anything outside of your control. The only things you command are your thoughts and actions. We choose our response. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

- Epictetus

topic: Fall, Self, Worry, Freedom And Happiness, Thoughts And Actions

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.

- Peyton C. March

topic: Happiness, Law, Giving, Peace And Happiness, Giving In

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Self, Freedom And Happiness, Greek Philosopher

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

- George Orwell

topic: Lying, Choices, Mankind, Freedom And Happiness

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Life, Motivational, Positive, Always Happy, Influencing People

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

- Jack Kornfield

source: "Fictional character: Jet Black". "Cowboy Bebop", www.imdb.com. 1998 - 2003.

topic: Moving, Loss, Ease, Freedom And Happiness

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

- Robert A. Heinlein

source: Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Great Feelings, Always Happy

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

- Joan Miro

topic: Simple, Drawing, Lines, Freedom And Happiness

I embrace my body, and I embrace everything about myself.

- Christina Aguilera

topic: Body, Body Image, Embrace, Full Circle, Freedom And Happiness

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Peace, Social Democracy, Power Corruption

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Declaration of Independence (1776).

topic: Life, Change, Happiness, Social Equality, Inaugural Speech

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Inspiring, Women, Equality, Social Equality, Social Groups

Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should not call men truly free when they are wicked and dissolute, since they are slaves to worldly passions. Freedom and happiness of soul consist in genuine purity and detachment from transitory things.

- Anthony the Great

topic: Christian, Passion, Character, Freedom And Happiness, Worldly

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

- Jean-Paul Marat

topic: Cutting, Six, Hundred, Repose, Freedom And Happiness

Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate struggle for changing the world. Against all fetishism of the productive forces, against the continued enslavement of individuals by the objective conditions (which remain those of domination), art represents the ultimate goal of all revolutions: the freedom and happiness of the individual.

- Herbert Marcuse

source: Herbert Marcuse (1978). “The aesthetic dimension: toward a critique of Marxist aesthetics”, Beacon Pr

topic: Art, Memories, Struggle, Enslavement, Freedom And Happiness

Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

- Anthony de Mello

topic: Love Is, Light, Darkness, Love Freedom, Way Of Love

We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no gods or emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any saviour. We want to be masters of the world and not instruments used by autocrats to carry out their wild ambitions. We want a modern lifestyle and democracy for the people. Freedom and happiness are our sole objectives in accomplishing modernisation.

- Wei Jingsheng

source: "Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2011.

topic: Believe, Ambition, Destiny, Modernisation, Freedom And Happiness

From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear dangers from abroad ... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power - that factions will be formed and liberty endangered ...

- Andrew Jackson

source: "Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren".

topic: Ambition, People, Political, Freedom And Happiness, Thirst For Power

I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Educational, Knowledge, Thinking, Freedom And Happiness, Diffusion

Whatever discipline you exercise should be based on the goal your child is eventually to reach, namely, freedom and happiness. I would show him towards what he is growing, his ultimate fulfilment, and help him to adapt himself to that. In everything that you do, you should keep the goal in view, and hence your discipline must aim at helping the child to realize that at a certain stage he will be above all discipline.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

source: Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

topic: Children, Exercise, Views, Freedom And Happiness

I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.243, Algora Publishing

topic: Educational, Men, Attention, Statue Of Liberty, Legitimate Government

Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.

- Paulo Freire

topic: Children, Real, School, Freedom And Happiness

The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.

- Ellen Willis

source: Review of "Terror and Liberalism" by Paul Berman, "Salon", March 25, 2003.

topic: Self, Anxiety, Despair, Another Way, Freedom And Happiness

I show people the techniques for gaining knowledge, and this inspires them in their search for truth, freedom and happiness. I also try to show people that truth exists as much in this world as it does in any other world.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Other Worlds, People, Gaining Knowledge, Freedom And Happiness

If yogis are to come to the realization of the interconnectedness of life, then we must free ourselves from the conditioning that has caused us to think it is all right to exclude all the other animals from our own goals of peace, freedom, and happiness.

- Sharon Gannon

source: "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

topic: Animal, Thinking, Goal, Freedom And Happiness, Interconnectedness

To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.

- Naomi Wolf

source: Source: brightestyoungthings.com

topic: Empowering, Mind, Trying, Freedom And Happiness