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.
Charles Caleb ColtonRead
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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.
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.
Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! _x000D_ Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.
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
So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.
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.
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.
To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
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