In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Copy Quote View & ShareHappiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Copy Quote View & ShareJoy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
Copy Quote View & ShareYou must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Copy Quote View & ShareEverything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Copy Quote View & SharePeople let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
Copy Quote View & ShareBut what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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