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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.
Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.
Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.
Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other read more
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be read more
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the read more
Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
And they are fools who roam;
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If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
And they are fools who roam;
The world has nothing to bestow,
From our own selves our bliss must flow,
And that dear hut,--our home.
