Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. 867
I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That’s what happiness is. 2.05K
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man – that is, the more divine – the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. 667
Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. 671
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love. 706
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. 1.11K
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. 2.35K
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. 2.45K
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. 1.02K
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. 685
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. 750
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. 2.61K
