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Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.Collection: Happiness
True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.Collection: Happiness
The happier the moment the shorter.Collection: Happiness
Some people have a view of self and of the universe that obliges them to struggle for happiness, to yearn for happiness-"some time in the future"-perhaps next year or the year after that. But not now. Not at this moment. Not here. Here and now is too terrifyingly close, too terrifyingly immediate. They suffer from happiness anxiety.Collection: Happiness
Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.Collection: Happiness
Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?Collection: Happiness
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.Collection: Happiness
My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.Collection: Happiness
Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.Collection: Happiness
How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?Collection: Happiness
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.Collection: Happiness
Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person.Collection: Happiness
Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.Collection: Happiness
It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.Collection: Happiness
The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of the heart's existence is in this calm equable light, even although it be only moonshine or twilight. Now the mind alone can obtain for us this heavenly cheerfulness and peace.Collection: Happiness
The tragedy of too many people is that they cannot allow happiness just to be there; they cannot leave it alone. Their sense of who they are and of what their destiny is cannot accommodate happiness. So they are drive to find ways to sabotage it.Collection: Happiness
Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.Collection: Happiness
Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.Collection: Happiness
The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.Collection: Happiness
... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.Collection: Happiness
It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.Collection: Happiness
As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: 'What do I really need right now to be happy?' What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.Collection: Happiness
Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that glitters in the sight at a distance; to neglect solid and substantial happiness for what is showy and superficial; and to contemn that good which lies within their reach, for that which they are not capable of attaining. Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin, and dishonour.Collection: Happiness
He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.Collection: Happiness
Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.Collection: Happiness
Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.Collection: Happiness
But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.Collection: Happiness
Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.Collection: Happiness
The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who lack vitality. There is a vague impression that the world would be a good world if it were only happy, that it would be happy if it were amused, and that it would be amused if plenty of artificial recreation - that recreation for which we are now told every community stands responsible - were provided for its entertainment.Collection: Happiness
We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.Collection: Happiness
But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.Collection: Happiness
Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.Collection: Happiness
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.Collection: Happiness
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.Collection: Happiness
Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.Collection: Happiness
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.Collection: Happiness
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.Collection: Happiness
Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happinessCollection: Happiness
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.Collection: Happiness
The purpose of life is Joy.Collection: Happiness
If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word [of honor] is God in man."Collection: Happiness
Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.Collection: Happiness
Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.Collection: Happiness
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.Collection: Happiness
A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked.... For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found sad. One day they asked him, 'What is the secret of your happiness?' He said, 'There is no secret. Every morning when I wake up, I meditate for five minutes and I say to myself, 'Listen, now there are two possibilities: you can be miserable, or you can be blissful. Choose.' And I always choose to be blissful.'Collection: Happiness
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.Collection: Happiness
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.Collection: Happiness