Love and Happiness

Some of my favourite quotes from Swami Chinmayananda’s writings, which truly reflect the vedantic interpretation of Love and Happiness.

• To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness
• Faults become thick when love is thin
• Remember, ‘Even this will pass away’.
• To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves
• The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
• Don’t put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket
• Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.
• Be strict and intelligently critical about yourself and your own weakness and follies. But, cushion your words and attitudes with love. Love is the greatest persuasive power we know in life.
• We may often give without love, but we can never love without giving
• Flood your mind with love. Look into the eyes of the other and embrace the person with whom you have quarreled. Words are not necessary. Both will have their eyes flooded, and the joy of tears will wash away all quarrels.
• There is no companion like solitude. One who knows how to tune himself to the inner silence, even in the midst of the din and roar of the marketplace, enjoys a most recreative solitude.
• The glory of life is not in never falling. The true glory consists in rising each time we call
• History is full of instances, wherein, victory would have been to the vanquished. If only they had battled a little longer! We often fall for lack of perseverance in our efforts. We leave our work half done in our impatience. Every job demands its quota of efforts. Never give up too soon.

Cheers!