Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Beautiful people do not just happen
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
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