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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
A child's smile reminds us that the greatest privilege in life is to know, help & enjoy the company of others
Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.
Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.
To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness.
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Don't postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.
One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.
close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere
Intelligence is the airport; will power is the airplane; man is the passenger and happiness is the destination!
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.
You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.