Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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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