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So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.Collection: Happiness
Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.Collection: Happiness
Happy man, happy dole.Collection: Happiness
The Power which creates and sustains everything is now creating everything necessary to my happiness.Collection: Happiness
Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.Collection: Happiness
The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.Collection: Happiness
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.Collection: Happiness
[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.Collection: Happiness
Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.Collection: Happiness
There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.Collection: Happiness
The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.Collection: Happiness
Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn to let go. Let go of your sorrows, let go of your worries. That is the secret of walking meditation.Collection: Happiness
Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happinessCollection: Happiness
It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.Collection: Happiness
When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.Collection: Happiness
Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.Collection: Happiness
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.Collection: Happiness
As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.Collection: Happiness
I remember when I switched from Christmas to sex as the secret of happiness.Collection: Happiness
Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.Collection: Happiness
Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.Collection: Happiness
Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.Collection: Happiness
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.Collection: Happiness
That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.Collection: Happiness
It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.Collection: Happiness
What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?Collection: Happiness
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.Collection: Happiness
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.Collection: Happiness
The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.Collection: Happiness
In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.Collection: Happiness
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from withinCollection: Happiness
Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel -or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.Collection: Happiness
Wine is only sweet to happy men.Collection: Happiness
If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.Collection: Happiness
Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.Collection: Happiness
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.Collection: Happiness
Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.Collection: Happiness
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition.Collection: Happiness
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.Collection: Happiness
For who is pleased with himself.Collection: Happiness
Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few materials for its own operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy.Collection: Happiness
None are happy but by anticipation of change.Collection: Happiness
Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.Collection: Happiness
So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.Collection: Happiness
Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.Collection: Happiness
We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.Collection: Happiness
Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.Collection: Happiness
Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.Collection: Happiness
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.Collection: Happiness