The key to happiness is achievable dreams.
The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
Many friends are the key to happiness
The key to happiness is to get the spirit and keep it.
At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
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.
The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
One of the things that you see ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree on is that strong relationships are a key to happiness, maybe the key to happiness. People who have more strong relationships in their lives just feel happier.
We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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.
If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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