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.
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Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though read more
Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
The beauty of success lies not solely in your happiness. But also in ensuring that you stop to help those read more
The beauty of success lies not solely in your happiness. But also in ensuring that you stop to help those along your life's path become champions in their lives.
Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what read more
Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple—yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.
Happiness is not a reward; it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment ; it is a result.
Happiness is not a reward; it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment ; it is a result.
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?]
