“Independence is happiness.”
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happiness
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“I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.”
“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.”
“There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.”
“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.”
“Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.”
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.”
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
“We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.”
“The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.”
“Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”
“Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.”
“It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.”
“Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.”
“I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.”
“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”
“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
“One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.”
“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.”
“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”
“Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.”
“When ambition ends, happiness begins.”