Ajahn Chah

You are your own teacher. Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

I have to plan my happiness. That’s the thing, we think happiness just happens and it can, but you’ve got to work in some happiness too.

Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Happiness isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Relinquishing the delusional hope that we can or must be flawless allows us to seek happiness in the place it can be found: Our real, messy, imperfect experience

Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

I think happiness is love.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.