Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
-Ramana Maharshi
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
-Ramana Maharshi
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.
-George M. Adams
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
"War and Peace"
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
If you think happiness is a rare bird, you won't see much of it.
-Marty Rubin
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-J. M. Barrie