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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.
Oct 1, 2025
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.
Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
To fill the hour──that is happiness.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.
If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
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.
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.
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.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.