Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness. 642
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. 647
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. 2.06K
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. 3.53K
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. 764
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. 687
The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift. 763
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. 799
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. 803
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. 2.37K
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness. 1.91K
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. 1.66K
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. 715
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. 1.61K
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. 662
