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Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.
The way to be happy is to make others so.
To find happiness, it is not quite difficult thing. It is just enough to distinguish the blue of the sky from the pink of peach flowers which are opening out.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.
A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility
Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.
Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
The key to happiness is to get the spirit and keep it.
Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.
It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting.
Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.
Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.
One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.
As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.
Children smile 400 times a day on average ... adults 15 times._x000D__x000D_Children laugh 150 times a day ... adults 6 times per day._x000D__x000D_Children play between 4-6 hours a day ... adults only 20 minutes a day._x000D__x000D_What's happened?
Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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