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One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.
A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.
The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else.
The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.
A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.
Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.
I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.
Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.
Obviously, there will be different character traits in the dressing room, but I'm there to bring happiness and a smile.
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.
You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Peace of heart - without it, no good can make us happy. With it, every trial, even the approach of death, can be borne.
We are trusted, loved and wanted in direct proportion to how we trust, love and want those with whom we come in contact
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.
I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.
There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.
Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.
The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.