~ Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness ~
~ ... the greatest part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. ~
~ Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere. ~
~ Contentment is accepting the world as an imperfect place. ~
~ Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. ~
~ Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.
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~ Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. ~
~ I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
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~ I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses. ~
~ Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ~
~ Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~
~ The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be ~