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. . . all who joy would win
Must share it.--Happiness was born a twin.
. . . all who joy would win
Must share it.--Happiness was born a twin.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue read more
Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue to search for more.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for read more
The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.
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.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten read more
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten
lost.
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.
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.
