Happiness quotes by Sadhguru
If you are happy by your own nature, now relationships will become a means for you to express your happiness not to seek happiness.
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Relationships have become a mutual exploitative process. You try to milk happiness out of somebody, somebody tries to milk something else out of you. If you take the responsibility of making yourself the way you want yourself to be.. you would be naturally joyful.
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It’s not the shape of the nose or chin, or the color of your skin that makes you beautiful. A joyful face is always a beautiful face
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Being fit for life means- hardness in the body, sharpness in your mind & softness in your heart.
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The biggest mistake that people make is they try to be happier than someone else.
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By arranging material things around you, only comfort and convenience will happen, wellbeing will never happen
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If you are forming relationships to seek happiness and trying to squeeze happiness out of somebody and that person is trying to squeeze happiness out of you, now this is going to be a painful relationship after some time
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How you are, should never be determined by how somebody else is. Once you allow that, you will remain a slave to somebody all your life because they will decide whether you'll be happy or unhappy.
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There are only two important things: 1. How Joyful are you? 2. How much joy do you give to people around you?
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You are feeling well when you are really happy, even if you are diagnosed as medically ill. Fundamentally well being means a certain level of joyfulness, certain exuberance of life
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Life Quotes
In terms of Life, Happiness means that your life energies are happening in a more exuberant way than it normally happens. Depression means your life energy has become low & staid.
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When the need to be special is gone, that is when you are unique. Significance of life is in its uniqueness
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External pleasantness needs cooperation from many people. It’s not just yours. There are other stakeholders who may want to make it nasty for you. It needs many people’s cooperation but inner pleasantness is one hundred percent yours. But why have you not strived for it?
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There is nobody who has not been happy, Everybody has been happy, the problem is that they have not been able to maintain it
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If with every single act that you do, you create what you care for, then whatever you get or do not get, your life is beautiful.
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The quality of your life does not depend on your clothes, car, or home, but on how peaceful and joyful you are
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If you are doing your best and enjoy doing your best, what's the problem with life? How many rupees or dollars you have in your pocket won't make any difference.
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Our pursuit of the comforts is so vigorous that the very life of the planet is being threatened. Yet, it cannot be said that we are any happier than our forefathers. This is because people are trying to create an outwardly perfect life. But the quality of our lives is based upon our interiority.
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If your life becomes an expression of your joy, not in pursuit of happiness then relationships will be naturally wonderful. You can hold a million relationships and still hold them good.
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We are thinking of happiness like it’s some kind of a commodity or some kind of an attainment. No. When your life comes to ease, when you come to ease, happiness is a natural consequence
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In all these years of life, How many of you have passed through one day of stretch absolutely joyfully without a single moment of irritation, agitation, pain, frustration? Very few people on the planet can say YES
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Today you think, “By doing this, I will be happy,” don’t ever think you will stay happy by doing that after some time. Everybody when they got their first job, what a beautiful day it was. But after a few years, sitting behind the same table, it’s taking your life - the same job, the same marriage, the same situations – they’re taking your life.
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People have chosen to be unhappy because they think that will get them something. But once you are unhappy, whatever you get, what does it matter?
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Short Quotes
When you are in pursuit of happiness, you are in some way causing suffering to others all the time.
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Only if this human mechanism works the way you want it to, will you be happy. Inner Engineering is about making this human mechanism work the way we want it to
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If you want to bring up your child well, the first thing is, you should be happy.
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I’m trying to increase the percentage of ecstatic people on the planet. You are my hope
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Relationship Quotes
You don't have to please anybody in this world, if you are truly joyful everybody is pleased by you
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You don't have to please anybody in this world, if you are truly joyful everybody is pleased by you
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If you have become a joy by yourself and you are forming relationships because you want to express your happiness, nobody is going to complain about you because you are in the process of expressing your joy not seeking joy from the other person.
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What most people are calling marriage right now is just a whole bundle of expectations about how the other person should make heaven for you. If you’re trying to extract happiness out of somebody, you will be disappointed.
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If you really want to have absolutely fantastic relationships.. you need to establish yourself as a joyful human being
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Relationships are not about extracting happiness but about giving joy to the other. Short journeys can be made alone, long journeys need reliable and resilient Relationships.
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Fundamentally, you are seeking a relationship because you want to be happy, you want to be joyful. Or in other words, you are trying to use the other as a source of your happiness.
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I don’t see any criminals. All I see is, every human being is in pursuit of his happiness. The man whom you call as a criminal is also in pursuit of his happiness. Only thing is he is pursuing his happiness far more vigorously than you
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A spiritual person and a materialistic person are both seeking the same infinite. One is seeking it consciously, the other one unconsciously.Seeking Spirituality Consciousness
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If you live joyfully until the last moment, you don't have to worry about death - that will also be a joyful process.
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Spiritual progress: If by the day you are becoming a more joyful human being, (if your long face is becoming wider) that means you are progressing
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When you were 5-6 years of age you were bursting with it, isn't it? Somebody had to make you unhappy at that time, now somebody has to make you happy
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Why we are continuously talking about joy, blissfulness, love, is not because it’s a goal by itself, these are not goals by itself -only when you are pleasant by your own nature, you stop being in pursuit of happiness. You are fine by yourself, you don’t have to go anywhere to feel pleasant. You don’t have to do anything to feel pleasant
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if you mortgage your pleasantness to something outside of you, you being pleasant or unpleasant is only by chance.
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I would know you are happy if your bones did Smile and I hear the rattle.
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The greatest fulfillment in life is to do something which is much larger than yourself.Inspirational Life Short Being human
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How people are is their choice. How I am is my choice. No matter what they do, no one can make me angry, happy or unhappy. These privileges I have kept to myself
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Whatever the shape of eyes or nose - a joyful face is always a beautiful face. Become Joy – become Beautiful.
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If your work is an expression of your joyfulness, whether recognition or no recognition, what does it matter?
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Stability is more important than ecstasy. If ecstasy comes before stability, you are heading for a crash
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Peace, Happiness, misery, anxiety, suffering, anger, and hatred have a certain chemical basis within you. There are simple methods with which one can create the right kind of chemistry within oneself. If you are willing to invest just a few minutes a day in your inner wellbeing, being peaceful & happy within yourself becomes natural.
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When you are in pursuit of happiness, you are in desperate action. When someone is in desperate action, you can't tell him not to do this or that. He will find devious ways to do it
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When human beings are peaceful and joyful within themselves, they will do just what is needed, nothing more, nothing less.
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It doesn't matter who you are right now, how miserable you are right now, how disturbed you are right now. If you pay enough attention to your interiority, being blissful is a possibility for every human being.
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Right now, you believe that something or someone else is the source of your joy, so you are always at their mercy. If you realize and experientially know that you are the source of your joy, wouldn't you be joyous all the time?
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If your pleasantness is dependent upon what happens around you, the chances of you being pleasant all the time is remote, in the very nature of things it is not possible.
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Happiness is essentially a human experience. While making our surroundings pleasant, it’s important to make our interiority also pleasant
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Marriage is not about compatibility, companionship, or extracting happiness. It is an opportunity to achieve a union that will open up a greater possibility
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If someone else determines what should happen around you, you feel like a slave. But Right now somebody else is determining what should happen within you, is this not slavery?
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Every cell in this body is programmed for health. Why would it turn against you? Because somewhere you are not keeping it happy
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I will make you the king or queen of this planet; will you remain fulfilled? Don’t look at me hopefully, I will not make such a blunder, I am only saying. If you become the king or queen of this planet, will you be fulfilled? No. You will look at the stars
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‘If everybody around me is unpleasant, how can I be pleasant?’ Especially if everybody around you is unpleasant, it's all the more important that you’re pleasant
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If your happiness depends upon what is happening outside of you, you are a slave to the external situation
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Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they found something much more intense and enduring within themselves
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Only when you're pleasant by your own nature, you stop being in pursuit of happiness. You are fine by yourself
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Right now, your happiness, peace, and misery - everything within you - is happening accidentally. That means your very way of being is decided by external situations. Once your inner situation is decided by the outside, you are going to live as an accident
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Do you think the man who is driving a car is happier than the man who is walking on the street? No. It is not decided by what you have. It depends on how you are at that moment.
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Why has the need for intoxicants arisen? It is because, within ourselves, we are unable to be comfortable where we are sitting. If you are able to experience happiness just by sitting in a place, will you feel the need to take drugs?
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In pursuit of happiness, we have ripped the planet apart, but still we are not any happier. It is time to stop and look, because all human experience happens within you, not outside of you
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Only when you are at your utmost pleasantness can you use your body and mind to the fullest
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You can explore the full potential of body & mind only when you are in the sustained level of pleasantness, otherwise, you are a damn issue by yourself
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Keep an account book, at the end of the day/ month just check "Am I little more joyful than yesterday", if you had done this since you were five years of age, you would have been ecstatic by now.
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If you’re pursuing happiness when you are five, I can understand, but that was not the fact, when you’re five you were simply happy by your own nature. When you’re fifty, you’re still pursuing your happiness - this is a failed story
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If you are concerned about the world, the first thing you need to do is transform yourself into a joyful beingPeace Joy Transformation World
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The only reason people don't know how to stay joyful is they don't have the needed know-how
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Today, we are seeking happiness so vigorously that the very life of the planet is being threatened. Don't be in pursuit of happiness. Know how to express your happiness in the world.
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In the process of creating what we want, in pursuit of our happiness, we are just destroying the very source of our life, this planet; we are making a bonfire out of it. But still, we are not satisfied
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Never before has a generation of people been this comfortable or had the kind of conveniences we know today. In spite of that, people are not any happier. They are getting more and more desperate. Humanity is experiencing psychological ailments like never before simply because people are not happy.
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You must learn to be happy with your compulsion. If you are not happy with it, now you have two problems - compulsion and unhappiness! At least if you have one problem, it is easier to deal with it.
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