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Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy
well-being.
Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy
well-being.
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into read more
It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room ahs been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. . -Sharon Salzberg.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down read more
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts,
and content with liberty, to despise all read more
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts,
and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
[Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et
libertate contentum negligere humana?]
Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.
Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.