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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.
Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.
Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility.
When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Don't get bogged down with all the details of how it's going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.
Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
There is no getting around these essential ingredients: determination, effort and time. These are the real secrets to happiness.
Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.
He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.
Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.
For me, beauty comes from natural happiness. I think that a woman glows, and a man, even, when they're healthy and they're happy.
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.
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.
A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.
The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.
The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.
A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.
"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.
Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.
Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions.
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life.. whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal.
The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
I am capable, confident, intelligent, resilient and in charge. Health and happiness are my birthrights and I accept with gratitude.
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.