Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary.
All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.
I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is normal-so we can't know for sure what your 'normal' is even like. But so long as we can learn to love ourselves, I'm not sure how much it matters whether we're normal or autistic.
I’m constantly in doubt about what I’m doing, I’m constantly tortured, and that’s why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies. I’m not striving for happiness, I’m trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constant rethinking, and reevaluating what you’re doing, working and working until you feel it’s finished. And that’s an interesting point too, that you’ve got to know when to stop. Sometimes there’s a magical moment when everything comes together.
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