We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked. . . . For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found sad. One day they asked him, 'What is the secret of your happiness?' He said, 'There is no secret. Every morning when I wake up, I meditate for five minutes and I say to myself, 'Listen, now there are two possibilities: you can be miserable, or you can be blissful. Choose. ' And I always choose to be blissful. '
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next year's revenue.
Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.
I am YOUR biggest fan, I love each one of you because of the support that you took to me. I know that people been saying that I do this for money, but I really don't. I do this for YOU, for your loyalty, for everything you've done, you are doing and you'll do in my life. Music has been my whole life since I was 4 years old, but you turned it into a whole experience of happiness. I know that I am not perfect, and maybe I don't worth it to put on your headphones and listen to this 14-years-old wannabe, full of ego and that brag about almost everything, but it's not about that, it's about you
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. . . Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.
All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
. . . if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. . . . . Always, the soil must come first.
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.
Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.
Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?
Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it.
Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
