Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.
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