I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was read more

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Mary Baker Eddy -Ursula K. LeGuin.

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.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.

If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly read more

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

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.

It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the read more

It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.