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Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.
Happiness is only gained when your mind is in extended states of attention, when your mind is merging with the infinite.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Sometimes we don't know what's best until we're forced into it. Often you can be just as happy or even happier with less.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
While we are focusing on fear, worry or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
When you see the flower of happiness on your way, don't take it immediately; sit and watch it and realise how rare it is!
You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.
If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.
Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions.
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.
It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others.
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.
No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.
The moment where the fisherman catches the fish, happiness and agony, light and darkness, joy and death come face to face!
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.
When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.
Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.
Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.