Happiness Poems
Be Happy - Sri Chinmoy
Be happy!
You will grow into God’s greatest blessing, His highest pride.
Be happy!
Yesterday’s world wants you to enjoy its surrendering breath. Today’s world wants you to enjoy its surrendered breath. Tomorrow’s world wants you to enjoy its fulfilling breath.
Be happy!
Be happy in the morning with what you have.
Be happy in the evening with what you are.
Be happy!
Do not complain. Who complains? The blind beggar in you. When you complain, you dance in the mire of ignorance. When you do not complain, all conditions of the world are at your feet, and God gives you a new name: aspiration. Aspiration is the supreme wealth in the world of light and delight.
Be happy!
Do you want never to be poor? Then be happy.
Do you want ever to be great? Then be happy.
Be happy!
You will get what you like most.
You will get what you like best.
Be happy!
God sees in you His aspiring creation. His transforming realization, His illumining revelation, and His fulfilling manifestation.
Be happy!
Be happy!
God sees in you another God. God sees you as another God. God sees you and Him as one.
To A Skylark
by: William Wordsworth
UP with me! up with me into the clouds!
For thy song, Lark, is strong;
Up with me, up with me into the clouds!
Singing, singing,
With clouds and sky about thee ringing,
Lift me, guide me till I find
That spot which seems so to thy mind!
I have walked through wildernesses dreary
And to-day my heart is weary;
Had I now the wings of a Faery,
Up to thee would I fly.
There is madness about thee, and joy divine
In that song of thine;
Lift me, guide me high and high
To thy banqueting-place in the sky.
Joyous as morning
Thou art laughing and scorning;
Thou hast a nest for thy love and thy rest,
And, though little troubled with sloth,
Drunken Lark! thou would'st be loth
To be such a traveller as I.
Happy, happy Liver,
With a soul as strong as a mountain river
Pouring out praise to the Almighty Giver,
Joy and jollity be with us both!
Alas! my journey, rugged and uneven,
Through prickly moors or dusty ways must wind;
But hearing thee, or others of thy kind,
As full of gladness and as free of heaven,
I, with my fate contented, will plod on,
And hope for higher raptures, when life's day is done.
Kiss The Earth
by Thich Nhat Hanh
Walk and touch peace every moment.
Walk and touch happiness every moment.
Each step brings a fresh breeze.
Each step makes a flower bloom.
Kiss the Earth with your feet.
Bring the Earth your love and happiness.
The Earth will be safe
when we feel safe in ourselves.
These poems suggest happiness can be attained through simplicity. When we use the mind and complicate things we are rarely at peace. But if we can live in the here and now, we can bring to the fore our inner happiness. We can also gain more inner happiness by being intune with nature. The vastness and beauty of nature can only help lift our spirits.
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Quotes on Happiness by the Dalai Lama
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Aphorisms on Happiness by Sri Chinmoy
Poems on Happiness
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