I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.  Thomas Jefferson quotes As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness. Dalai Lama quotes Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day. In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher. Dalai Lama quotes For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart -- then no problem. Dalai Lama quotes I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion, and elimination of ignorance, selfishness, and greed. Dalai Lama quotes There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus quotes The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy quotes One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable. François de la Rochefoucauld quotes He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay. Horace quotes Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife. Kahlil Gibran quotes | 
