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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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition read more
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
Remember, happiness is a way of travel not a destination.
Remember, happiness is a way of travel not a destination.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes read more
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant read more
Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.
Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart read more
Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seed all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest.
