Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. .
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.
The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
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