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Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.Collection: Happiness
We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.Collection: Happiness
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.Collection: Happiness
And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we found what we loved to do and we were at the right place at the right time and we've gotten to go to work every day with super bright people for 30 years and do what we love doing.Collection: Happiness
Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.Collection: Happiness
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.Collection: Happiness
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.Collection: Happiness
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!Collection: Happiness
There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!Collection: Happiness
Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!Collection: Happiness
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.Collection: Happiness
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.Collection: Happiness
Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.Collection: Happiness
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.Collection: Happiness
If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.Collection: Happiness
Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.Collection: Happiness
Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.Collection: Happiness
He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.Collection: Happiness
What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.Collection: Happiness
Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her.Collection: Happiness
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.Collection: Happiness
Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.Collection: Happiness
Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.Collection: Happiness
No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.Collection: Happiness
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.Collection: Happiness
Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.Collection: Happiness
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.Collection: Happiness
Be happy. Talk happiness.Collection: Happiness
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.Collection: Happiness
If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.Collection: Happiness
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.Collection: Happiness
The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.Collection: Happiness
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.Collection: Happiness
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.Collection: Happiness
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.Collection: Happiness
We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.Collection: Happiness
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise... Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.Collection: Happiness
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.Collection: Happiness
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happyCollection: Happiness
Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beingsCollection: Happiness
The way to be happy is to make others so.Collection: Happiness
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.Collection: Happiness
The way to health, harmony, and happiness is primarily mental.Collection: Happiness
The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.Collection: Happiness
With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.Collection: Happiness
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.Collection: Happiness
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.Collection: Happiness
Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.Collection: Happiness