Quotes About Community Happiness

#1. If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.

Guilherme Leal

#2. I think family, friends and a sense of community give you greater happiness than money. But, of course, one has to have a minimum on which to live. The joy I get from sitting around and having a laugh is immeasurable - much greater than anything that I have ever bought.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#3. Don't judge a community by how much they are suffering but judge them by how much they are learning from it. That is what really matters.

Debasish Mridha

#4. If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.

K. Pattabhi Jois

#5. In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

#6. I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

Salman Rushdie

#7. Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.

Ben Nicholson

#8. She felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition had become so thin that practically (the feeling was one of relief and happiness) it was all one stream ...

Virginia Woolf

#9. True happiness comes only through sharing in the trials and successes of other persons and of our community. Hence it is essential that any true conception of happiness contain the promise of full commitment to the life of the society.

Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

#10. I would like to inspire the community by envisioning, enabling, energizing and ensuring.

Debasish Mridha

#11. You may be hurt or not recognized for the good you do for your community, society, and humanity but be forgiving and do your best anyway.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Everyone can find what is wrong with a society but only a few can lead toward the betterment of a community.

Debasish Mridha

#13. All these men recognized what they themselves valued, and lived according to these values regardless of their relationship to the values of their community. Each lived according to what brought them happiness and peace rather than commonplace prescriptions of the multitudes.

Chris Matakas

#14. My wish for the community is a great deal of confidence, optimism, and pride. Together we can create a great future for this community.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Man's obsession with his own wants is taking him further from those without whom happiness cannot be found. It is taking him from his people.

Anasazi Foundation

#16. In a word, if happiness has befallen us, its source is not within us, but elsewhere, outside, beyond us and our community, far away, in Others.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#17. As a community, I wish to sit together and think for the betterment of the society. I would like to see prosperity, peace, and an expansion of happiness in the community.

Debasish Mridha

#18. If you have a clean environment, you will have a healthy atmosphere. This will make you happy and your happiness will bring joy to your parents and it will affect the community, too. Then there will be peace of mind to one and all.

Oren Lyons

#19. Happiness doesn't come from commercial success but from the quality of work that you give back to your immediate community.

Adrian Grenier

#20. The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#21. Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.

Criss Jami

#22. It is not the number of prayers that will give you happiness, but the number you answer for another person.

Shannon L. Alder

#23. The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

Michael Pollan

#24. happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.

Yuval Noah Harari

#25. Our altruistic mind is the key to our happiness as individuals, families, nations, and as an international community.

Dalai Lama XIV

#26. Happiness isn't found in some finite checklist of goals that we can diligently complete and then coast. It's how we live our lives in the process. That's why the four pillars of happiness are faith, family, community and meaningful work. Those are priorities we have to keep investing in.

Arthur C. Brooks

#27. Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.

Dalai Lama

#28. Family and community seem to have more impact on our happiness than money and health. People

Yuval Noah Harari

#29. Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

Walt Whitman

#30. To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

Bertrand Russell

#31. We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.

Wilhelm Reich

#32. When ... we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Aristotle.

#33. I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family ... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration ... of work, family, self, community.

Padmasree Warrior

#34. It was an exciting community, where we lived in Washington. The basic feeling - and I don't think this is just nostalgia - was one of excitement, of achievement, of happiness. Life was important, life was significant.

Studs Terkel

#35. I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American and in every community has a right to pursue happiness.

Jeb Bush