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If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.Collection: Happiness
We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.Collection: Happiness
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.Collection: Happiness
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.Collection: Happiness
You are all adding to each other's unhappiness; you are all helping each other to be more unhappy. Every single man has many people behind him making him unhappy. If an understanding of compassion is there, then you will change all the ways that you cause unhappiness in others. And if you can bring happiness to someone's life, you will find a way to do it.Collection: Happiness
Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.Collection: Happiness
Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.Collection: Happiness
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.Collection: Happiness
There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.Collection: Happiness
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.Collection: Happiness
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.Collection: Happiness
There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike.Collection: Happiness
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?Collection: Happiness
But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.Collection: Happiness
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.Collection: Happiness
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.Collection: Happiness
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.Collection: Happiness
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.Collection: Happiness
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.Collection: Happiness
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work must no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.Collection: Happiness
As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.Collection: Happiness
Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.Collection: Happiness
Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.Collection: Happiness
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.Collection: Happiness
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.Collection: Happiness
We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.Collection: Happiness
If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.Collection: Happiness
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.Collection: Happiness
I love the broad margin to my life.Collection: Happiness
Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.Collection: Happiness
Whenever you feel happiness it is always from the inner. Then mind immediately jumps in and takes control and says, 'It is because of me.' When you are in love, it is like death, you feel blissful. Immediately mind comes in and says, 'Okay, this is me, this is because of me.'Collection: Happiness
Feeling very happy - why? An explanation is needed. No, happiness needs no explanation, happiness is its own explanation. God is creating because that is the only way he can be happy, that is the only way he loves, that is the only way he sings, that's the only way he can be at all. Creation is his innermost nature, no why is needed.Collection: Happiness
I feel that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.Collection: Happiness
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.Collection: Happiness
My effort here is to create bliss, not happiness. Happiness is worthless; it depends on unhappiness. Bliss is transcendence: one moves beyond the duality of being happy and unhappy. One watches both; happiness comes, one watches and does not become identified with it. One does not say, 'I am happy. Peace, it is wonderful.' One simply watches, one says, 'Yes, a white cloud passing.'Collection: Happiness
To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.Collection: Happiness
I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.Collection: Happiness
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.Collection: Happiness
All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they are now; and they are possible to them chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over plowshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope: these are the things that make people happy.Collection: Happiness
I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.Collection: Happiness
Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.Collection: Happiness
To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.Collection: Happiness
Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.Collection: Happiness
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.Collection: Happiness
When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.Collection: Happiness
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.Collection: Happiness
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.Collection: Happiness
Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.Collection: Happiness