Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation.
Interpretation
True happiness comes from within and is determined by our mindset.
This quote emphasizes the idea that happiness is not dependent on external circumstances, but rather on one's own perspective and thoughts. Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that by choosing to think positively about our situations, we can cultivate our own happiness, highlighting the importance of self-reflection and mental attitude in achieving joy.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
I have learnt that gardens are like happiness: you cannot pursue them as an absolute thing or moment.
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.
What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
Real bliss is to have peace of mind.
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