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“-Wherever you go, there you are! You can’t run away from yourself, or the underlying situation, no matter where you go. You won’t find happiness anywhere, unless it’s already there in your heart, a...”
“Today is a special day that will go by very fast, so let’s take every second to make the most out of every moment.”
“I wanted to freeze this moment forever, the chimes, the slight splash of the water, the chink of the dogs’ leashes, laughter from the pool, the skritch of my mother’s dip-pen, the smell of the tree...”
“Thank you for being you… for sharing your love with me… for inspiring me to accept myself… for helping me see the unique beauty in imperfection… for showing me that love is something you do; someth...”
“Happiness is a mystery like religion and it should never be rationalized.”
“Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”
“Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.”
“A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.”
“If a man has important work and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.”
“Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”
“For the rational psychologically healthy man the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.”
“If thou workest at that which is before thee following right reason seriously vigorously calmly without allowing anything else to distract thee but keeping thy divine part pure as if thou shouldst ...”
“Happiness: a good bank account a good cook and a good digestion.”
“Behold we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job.”
“Man's happiness springs mainly from moderate troubles which afford the mind a healthful stimulus and are followed by a reaction which produces a cheerful flow of spirits.”
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one has to do.”
“True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversations of a few sel...”
“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy but never an interested person who was unhappy.”
“My life has no purpose no direction no aim no meaning and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?”
“I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism.”
